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Show JAY BIRD AS JOBBER Mystery of Rifled Mail Box in Ohio at Last Cleared Up. SPRINGFIELD, O., April 29. The robbery of a United States mall box by a Jay bird is reported from New Carlisle. Car-lisle. Edward P. Funderburg. rural mall carrier No. 4, reported to Postmaster Post-master E. C. Miller that a certain mail box was being systematically robbed. The owner of the box made a close' survey, sur-vey, noting; no tracks leading to it but those of the carrier's horse and wagon. A letter was found in a field near by, half hidden in ploughed ground. Further Furth-er Investigation revealed a Jay bird's nest in the mall box.. The mother bird was setting and resented the persistent interruption of letters dropping on her back. When one would fall she would place it in her hill and carry it to' an adjacent- field and deposit it on the ground. The bird gained an entrance to the box through a broken glass. |