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Box 1

Personal and business papers, correspondence 1891-1938

Scope and Contents

Box includes personal papers (1900-1928), business papers (1900-1920), and general correspondence (1891-1938).
 

Criminal cases 1892-1913

Box 2

Charles A. Beeler 1898 December 28

Scope and Contents

Charles A. Beeler was a Wells Fargo delivery man at San Antonio, Texas. Embezzlement, $50,000, consigned to Southern Pacific Paymaster at San Antonio.
Box 3

J.B. Humphrey 1908 May 14

Scope and Contents

French, New Mexico Robbery, Wells Fargo Depot, $35,000, by J. B. Humphrey, alias Arkansas ex-convict.
Box 4

J.B. Humphrey 1908 May 14

Box 5

Kansas City Southern train - Charles A. Ketchum 1892-1912

Scope and Contents

Kansas City Southern Trains numbers 4 and 9 robberies; Charles A. Ketchum, alias Charles A. Hardin, Wells Fargo Messenger and ex-convict. Embezzlement, $50,000, en route from New York to Galveston, Texas.
Box 6

Lake Charles, Louisiana 1912 November 13

Scope and Contents

Lake Charles, Louisiana Robbery, Wells Fargo office, $20,000.
Box 7

Rock Island train - Philip Elmer Tabor 1895-1913

Scope and Contents

Rock Island Train No. 43, Robbery near Wister, Oklahoma, by Frank Price, alias Frank Edwards, alias Fleming; Sugarland Case, Texas, Robbery by Thompson and Crain; Philip Elmer Tabor, ex-convict, Robbery, Messenger Lord, Southern Pacific Train No. 9 out of New Orleans.
Box 8, Folder 1-90

Photographs: criminals and general undated

Box 9

Records, reports, miscellaneous, and ephemera 1890-1932

Scope and Contents

Box contains John P. Clum correspondence with Dodge and clippings; James Marshall, Chief of Police, Cripple Creek, Colorado (newspaper accounts); E.J. Reilly, Fire Inspector, Report on fire danger at Wells Fargo...; miscellaneous material and ephemera.
Volume 1

List of crimes and Wells Fargo criminals 1891-1895

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Removed from box 9 and housed in a large envelope.
Folder 1

Photograph of Captain Fred James Dodge with President Theodore Roosevelt, et al., in Texas undated

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Removed from box 8, flattened and encapsulated in mylar.
Collection Contents
Personal and business papers, correspondence
Criminal cases
Photographs: criminals and general
Records, reports, miscellaneous, and ephemera
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