Indianapolis (IN) Star, December 21, 1913, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was
abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis.
BOLD YOUNGSTERS ROB THE MAIL, NOW THEY'RE IN THE COUNTY JAIL
Paoli Bandits Admit Their Crime and Both Describe the Deed in Rhyme
Confessions in verse, illustrated with cartoons showing the steps by which
two youngsters rifled a couple of mail pouches at Paoli, Ind., recently,
will be exhibits A and B when the culprits, David White, 19 years old, and
Fred Moore, 16 (difficult to read) are brought to trial in the United States
District Court. The boys are charged with robbing the United States mails.
It was a strange mixture of the esthetic and romantic that United States
Deputy Marshal Lon Boyd, who brought the boys to Indianapolis from Paoli
yesterday, found in his young prisoners. For the Moore lad, besides
admitting himself to be a poet and an artist, is a singer. Since his mother
and father separated, the boys says, he has been traveling about the country
singing his way into the hearts and pocketbooks of his audiences. Recently
he has been singing in a motion picture showhouse in Paoli earning $3 a day,
he said.
Moore says he is of Hindu extraction. His father, he told Mr. Boyd, was
separated from his mother about a year ago and agreed to pay the mother
$3,500 a year alimony. The father is a practicing physician in the South,
according to the lad.
The lads appeared to be rather proud of their achievement in robbing the
United States mail. They took the mail pouches from the railroad station
platform in Paoli, carried them into a woods nearby and emptied them of
their contents. Each step of the crime is portrayed by Moore's drawing, and
he added a realistic touch by picturing both of the lads in prison stripes
as the final drawing of the series.