March 13, 2015

The good citizenship of America’s newspaper carriers goes on, despite the public’s mysterious failure to recognize these noble servants.

On February 28, a tragically unnamed newspaper carrier from Maryland, Tennessee noticed that someone had broken open the front door of the city’s Plantation Market and promptly warned the police that a crime may have occurred. Sure enough, police officers discovered that someone had entered the store and stolen 95 cartons of cigarettes valued at $4,750.

According to The Daily Times, Maryville’s daily newspaper, police investigators followed tracks in the snow from the market, through a nearby car wash, to a discarded soda can. That and the store’s video footage led them to local resident Donald Eugene Mashburn II, whom they arrested and charged with burglary.

Read about other acts of newspaper carrier heroism.

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