Show STRANGE THEfT AT 1 I 9 Mysterious Disappearance o of Registered Packages I TAKEN FROM LOCKER LOOKER LOCKERS S M ill THE BASEMENT Phi 1 nt t r rad d and n l t If J r o oo o I Steven Eleven pieces pI of registered at red mall die appeared very mysteriously from th the m Jling room of the Salt Lake post poet postoffice po t office ottice in the basement of the Dooly Dool block between t 30 and 10 16 las lag last night The pouch from the north hc had Just been brought in and the registered regis registered terM packages which were all in on one bundle were extracted and signed for foi forby toby by the clerk E B H Reeves who then thet placed them away way in III a a locker temper temporarily temporarily while he be went upstairs up to load loan the thi late northbound malL matL Meanwhile LA L LA LA A Billings who has h charge char e of oC the reg tug registered regIstered mall mail had gone to another part par of the room m for a few minutes Reeves returned a half hour or more mon from the time he be signed his name ir It intile the tile messengers mes e gers receipt book the mall mal was wag gone gODe Totter Rater some papers one ol of o othe the letters stolen and aDd the bi hi bUt contain containing containIng containing ing the numbers of or the packages pack were wert found Cound outside a basement window above the th locker in which Reeves Reeve placed the registered packages show showing Lug ing that the thief opened one of the th packages there and indicating that thu window was his hili means of oC ingress Ingre e The Th mysterious part 1 rt of the affair is thai that at the th time the robber is supposed eF tc to have entered the window and after se securing wring turing the package returned by the same route opening the bundle in front of Si the window there were three men mer not sot more than fifteen feet fHt distant ORe One was Reeves who was loading mail mall and anc the he others other were the Ute driver named Rob RoV RoVInson Inson and a companion S Immediately upon discovering the thelO th lO loss IS Reeves and Billings sent weed we tc to t Postmaster ter Thomas The latter 4 11 out Ut driving and it was an hour later when he was u finally reached Word was Wag then sent to the police pollee station and ant lid several officers visited the in Sn the hope of or securing some clue It Ii ItIs Itis Is S the opinion of the police that some someone someone one me who knows the Ins and outs of the business got away with the package It is possible po le that the solon solen packages package money melley This T is i about the time remittances are sent nt on 0 to reach their by the first of the month und tad frequently a package pack will wUl contain 1060 1080 One of ot the letters stolen last night had coin in it to the clerks who felt of it but they cannot say lay how much The messenger who brought the mail malt from rom the train is 18 n named td and nd Ms tie home is 18 in Ogden Ogdan He turned it over to Reeves at exactly 30 Clerk Reeves Beeves Statement S I 1 went upstairs up said Reeves to toad oad the outgoing mall mail and was gone some orne time having ha vine the registered mail mailIn In n the locker looker as u usual The messen messenger me en enger ger ter went after alter getting his receipt Mr lir Billings linings was over in the washroom thirty feet from the locker Jocker but in insight insight sight tight of the same game me When I 1 returned about 1015 I went to get the package to So put it in the vault end ruid it was gone The window through which a thief might night have entered opens into llIto the alley between the rear of ot the Dooly block nd ind the Oregon Short Line offices It ItIs IB Is about five feet teet above the top of the locker ocker When the policemen and oth other er rg arrived at sf the te office oIce o ice the alley was searched On the window sill not more than han fifteen feet from where the mall mail m H wagon was standing was found the bill giving the numbers of or each of the reg tug registered regIstered packages A few feet away two wo cards one a postmasters receipt und and nd the other bearing be rIg the name of the Ule sender lender of a package were found The package from which the latter paper was rae taken had been mailed at t Pocatello by ty a young woman Further than this It 1 is impossible Impo for the authorities to learn earn anything about the contents of the he package until an investigation is IsI I made nade The investigation sUga will begin this his morning under the direction of In Inspector I sp pe tor tOl Sharp Theory Th Ory of Police Pollee While it would have been possible for fori fora forman the win winlow window a i man to have come through low dow ow and got out in less than a minute with rith the package he M could hardly have hae escaped the observation o of those in th i 1 Continued en n Page 21 S T AT POSTOFFICE Continued from page L 1 the alley For this reason the tM police adhere to the theory that the papers thrown into the alley aDeY as a blind Mind and were that the robbery was committed by some one who knows the surroundings thoroughly thorough Postmaster Thomas has hag implicit con oon confidence in his employees employed especially e dence work last night Who wito at those hose who were stated old men in the service He i are will wilt b he be made investigation full lull that a that of the opinion The po postmaster er Is 18 the thief came cam through h the window wildow The gate at the rear of the Scott ott S Strevell warehouse adjoining the post postoffice poStoffice last was found open office on the west has never The Th e night The be unlocked before known it to I gate gat gives entrance to an alley street lead leafing lag Ing ng through onto Second South |