Show SfNSATINAl MAil RO OIIIIEII OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS EXTRACTED Theft Occured Early Last Month On the New Jersey Central Bobbery Kept Secret Until Now New York Dec 10It was learned today to-day that one of the biggest robberies In the history the New York postofflce occurred oc-curred on Nov 9 The amount involved is I said to be in the neighborhood of 1100000 and was taken from registered letters in the railway mail service on that section I of the Central Railway of New Jersey known as the New York Somerville Eastern branch On Nov 9 i is stated that two packages containing ZOO were taken How long the defalcations nad gone on before had not been ascertained Major Charles T Lewis of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia branch of the government t ecret service ser-vice was in this city today investigating the robbery which has been kept secret until now by the postal authorities Tho Herald says in regard to the mal robbery which the postofflce authorities are investigating Inspector Lewis when seen in Jersey City said the total loss is not known exactly but would be less than U Another official mentioned JlOOO as the outside limit Washington Dec 10The postal officials dais here tonight admitted that there had been a number of losses of registered mail matter reported by the railroad referred re-ferred to but said that the amount would not reach as much as S100000 0 r Richard Mansfield I Trouble Philadelphia Dec 10Richard Mansfield Mans-field the actor was today held in 600 bail to answer a court charge of assault as-sault and battery preferred by John Metzger of Cleveland 0 who has been in the actors employ as a dresser for the past seven years Metzger testi fled before Magistrate Eisenbrown today to-day that the assault occurred on Tuesday Tues-day in Mansfields dressing room at the Chestnut street opera house Metzger was dressing Mansfield for Prince Karl when a button came off Thereupon There-upon he said the actor lost his temper called him a loafer and struck him several blows In the face On Wednesday Wed-nesday night he testified Mansfield again swore at him and ordered him out but the next afternoon he offered him 100 to go away somewhere for four weeks Attorney John G Johnson John-son who represented Mansfield became be-came his bondsman The actor declined de-clined to make a statement at this time but one of his close friends declared de-clared that the charge had been trumped up by parties who were using Metzger as a tool to persecute Mr Mansfield and that the whole story I was a falsehood |