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Show iHoScis Attempt to Buy Shoes With $100 Money Order Leads to Arrest, MESSAGE BY WIRELESS Confesses to Inspectors That He Took $30,000 From Ship's Mails. San Francisco, Cal., April 2. David Williams, a mess boy on the liner Ventura, which arrived here from Australia, March 20, confessed to postal Inspectors today that on thf: voyage he robbed the mails of checks, postal orders and cash aggregating S3U.000. When Joe Horn, also a moss boy on the Ventura, attempted last night to buy a pair of cheap shoes with a money order for ?100, the storekeeper became suspicious and called In a detective. de-tective. Nothing could be learned from Horn and he was turned loose, but shadowed, shad-owed, in the hope that ho might be trailed to his accomplices. Today ho was found closeted with Williams, who broke down and confessed. Information that a mall pouch was missing was sent by wireless to the postal authorities in advance of the posuu auinoruies in auviuice ui mu Ventura's arrival. In his statement Williams said that as a mess boy, he had tho run of the ship and wns under no suspicion, wherever he was seen. Postal inspectors in-spectors say Williams, in his confession, confes-sion, admitted that he stole a mall pouch, lipped it open, kept all the contents that he thought could be converted Into cash, and threw overboard over-board everything else. What amount of non-negotiable securities se-curities he disposed of in this manner man-ner he does not know. |