Show CANCELLED STAMP STEAL WASHINGTON Dec 5 William Washington a negro has been arrested for complicity in the treasury cancelled cancel-led stamp steal and made a confession which shows that the thefts have gone on for months The stamps he says were not taken from the documents at the treasury building but papers were taken away in small quantities todif ferent houses where girls were employed employ-ed at from 40 to 50 cents a day removing re-moving such stamps and signatures as seemed valuable and then burned the papers I is estimated that Washington I Washing-ton and Edwards arrested some days ago obtained from the file from the treasury about 25000 old papers and destroyed a considerable number after removing the stamps About 18000 stamps have been recovered by the department de-partment |