Show OGDEN postoffice POST OFFICE ROBBED on january a reporter called on postmaster kimball and asked him if he had bad any information to impart relative to the rumored robbery of the post postoffice office in ogden the general replied that the rumor was true but that he be haj had endeavored to keep the matter quiet until some clue could be had of the robber and that he be thought he had bad succeeded in doing so until he began to hear that other people seemed to know more about it than he did himself in view of this fact the general thought the matter might as well be made public through the papers or as much of it as he knew or was at liberty to tell in the post postoffice office is a vault evault containing a number of small drawers in which were stowed away the valuables Emiles documents etc belon belonging 9 i to the office the top row on one side is composed of three drawers the first one containing box keys and key deposits the second one the money accruing from the sale of stamps and rent of boxes the third one the cash for money orders it was wars the middle one of these drawers containing the stamp money and box rents which was robbed it had been pried open with a hatchet which was used in the office for opening boxes chopping kindling wood etc and a bag of gold and silver coin to the amount of 1100 taken the theft had not been discovered until 4 on saturday last and everything was secure at 9 on the previous evening friday so that the robber must have had access to the vault some time between these hours As soon as postmaster kimball discovered that the crime was committed he sent a dispa dispatch toh to the inspector at donver denver asking him to come to ogden at once on important bustness business the general also sent a letter of particulars to the inspector of which the following is the substance on saturday the day of january at 4 p m my assistant B R H B minty called my attention to the fact that a drawer in the vault had been pried open and a bag of coin gold gohl and silver amounting to about 1100 had been taken the drawer draper seemed to have been opened with a hatchet which next day wan waa found secreted in the vault the same we used for opening boxes etc when the work was done or by whom I 1 am unable to say but believe it was done dairl during the day on saturday the nAvery everything thing was safe and right at 9 on friday night when the vault was locked for the night by general minty when he went home two night clerks remained all night in the office as usual the chief of police county sheriff U 8 marshal and other officers were informed at once and are all at work on the case I 1 am utterly at a loss lose as to whom to suspect ogden standard |