Paul Briggman – Sock Thief of Wiconisco, 1924

Local officials, the owners of a hosiery mill and a dye factory, and several residents of the Lykens Valley area testified against Paul Briggman of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in a hearing held in Lykens in October, 1924. Briggman was accused of robbing the Isaac Mossop Hosiery Mill of Wiconisco of $25 of stockings. The hearing resulted in Briggman being remanded to jail in Harrisburg where he would he held pending disposition of his case in criminal court.

PAUL BRIGGMAN JAILED FOR HOSIERY THEFT

Paul Briggman, notorious thruout this entire section, was arrested Tuesday and placed in the borough jail pending hearing of a charge of breaking into and stealing hosiery from the Mossop Hosiery Mill, Wiconisco, Pennsylvania.

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