NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 48, Issue 23

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Someone said "you can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back kicking all four legs in the air, then you've got something."

EdKing

---- NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 

> Hmmmm, I would have sworn it would have been Hal Roach Studios...

> 

> Mark Lindsey

> Stuck in the 1930's

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> - "You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil has to be lead"

>   - Stan Laurel, 1931

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> On Oct 17, 2009, at 12:08 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

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> No such luck.  According to info on the Web, the Keystone Kops (later  

> Keystone Cops) movies were produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone  

> Film Company.

> 

> Gordon Hamilton

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> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:21 AM

> Subject: Re: NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 48, Issue 23

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> Gentlemen, Sam and Gordon and others:

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> I wonder ....... COULD this tale have been the origin at least of the

> name for those Keystone Cops early movies? I wonder and Sam and

> Gordon, you may have hit on something here. Speculation and perhaps

> even wild Spec but still ..... maybe?

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> On the subject of movies, I'm surprised no one has made a crack about

> the involvement in this mail theft of the Keystone Cops.

> 

> Gordon Hamilton

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> From: NW Mailing List

> To: NW Mailing List

> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:45 PM

> Subject: Re: N&W in 1910--Mail robbery

> 

> Sounds like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meet O Brother, Where  

> Art Thou!

> 

> Sam Putney

> 

> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> March 30, 1910

> SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY OF MAIL CRANE

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> Man Alleged to Have Been a Partner of Kentucky Joe is Under Arrest At  

> Keystone

> 

> The Keystone police have a man named Thurman Givens under arrest on

> suspicion of knowing something about the stealing of a mail sack from

> the mail crane at Eckman on the night of February 26th. The man denies

> that he had anything to do with the robbery and rifling of the sack

> but admits that he was asleep in a coke oven nearby the night the

> robbery occurred. When arrested he gave his name as Sam Spaulding, but

> since that time it has been found that he also goes under the name of

> Jack Perdue, although Givens is his correct name. He is alleged to

> have been a partner of Kentucky Joe, who was arrested in the west end

> yards about a year ago and who was a notorious postoffice robber. He

> also, it is said, was a pal of Fatty Dorn, who admitted robbing the

> postoffice at Tip Top. Red Cunningham, who was also arrested at that

> time, has been seen in and around Keystone since the rifling of the

> mail sack, and on account of his former connections with the

> postoffice robberies it is believed that he had a hand in the matter.

> Cunningham has also made several attempts to see Givens while he has

> been in jail. Kentucky Joe, it will be remembered, was one of a gang

> which held out at Meg Lowe's at Tazewell, and Kentucky Joe was the

> only one of that bunch who got away. He came to this city where he

> was picked up by Officer Howell and Special Officer A. M. Wade. He is

> now serving time in the federal prison at Atlanta. The mail sack which

> was robbed at Eckman was hanging on the crane where it was placed by

> the postmaster. No. 16 was an hour and three-quarters late that night

> and while no one was around the sack was stolen, rifled and the

> letters and sack cut up and thrown in the Elkhorn creek.

> ------

> [The names of these people sound like characters from a Damon Runyon  

> novel.]

> 

> Gordon Hamilton

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