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Show Vost Oil ice Tlilel. Chicago, 22. For some time complaint com-plaint has been made that business letters addressed to Chicago mer-chantp, mer-chantp, have been missing and the supposition baa been that a steal has been going on in the postotlicc department. de-partment. Tho responsibility, however, how-ever, has not been placed until to day when Frederick J. Gross, the distributing distrib-uting clprk, who has been suspected recently vid quietly Trotchcd, was discovered furtively slipping letters under a newspaper and thence to an inside pocket. He was immediately called to an interview with Bpecial treasury agent Stuart, and confessed to the theft, placing the amount of his stealings at Jj00. Government officers, however, 3uspect that the sum is much larger. His transac lions have- been confined to business letters. |