Show BAG OF MAIL DISAPPEARS FROM Of DEPOT POT Through Pouch Containing Registered Packages Be Believed Believed Believed to Be Stolen NO r o TRACE REVEALED BY BYA BYA BYA A THOROUGH INQUIRY RESPONSIBILITY AT TIME OF DIS DISAPPEARANCE DISAPPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARS TO TOBE TOBE TOBE BE IN DOUBT A mail mall pouch containing eight regis registered registered registered packages was Voas stolen from the Rio Grande Western station at 7 j yes yesterday yesterday es evening The bag was a a through pouch destined for Grand Junction and was to have been sent out on Rio Grande train No Ko 4 eastbound This train is scheduled to leave at in the evening but was about thirty minutes late last night i It Jt is hardly possible that the tho pouch could have been taken elsewhere than at atthe atthe atthe the station tation It was delivered dellver rl to the mail mall wagon by the clerks at the general post postoffice postoffice office of nee and the contents of ot the wagon were plied piled upon a truck at the station T ls is truck stood alongside the track for over oer half an hour awaiting the arrival of ot the train and was unwatched during that period The loss of the pouch was discovered by bythe b bythe the mall mail clerk aboard tho train He counted the pouches as they were thrown into the car and discovered that the Grand Junction pouch was as missing After the car had been thoroughly searched Thomas Orchard transfer clerk of ot the railway mail mall service telephoned the postoffice to discover if it the pouch had hall been beell overlooked there He was assured that the pouch lOUCh had been delivered to the mail mall wagon waon He lie then telephoned to the Oregon Short Line depot and requested that they the search the mail car r of the Salt Lake Route train which leaves at almost the same time as Rio Grande Grands Xo No 4 It was thought that the pouch might have been sent to the TOnI station but although the mail mall cars of the tl Salt Lake Route were carefully searched was not discovered Postmaster Thomas stated last night that he was unable to fix the tho responsibility its ity it of the missing pouch at present as ashe ashe ashe he had not had time to investigate the circumstances thoroughly He stated that the responsibility of the local post postoffice postoffice postoffice office ended with the tile delivery delle r of the pouch to he mail mall wagon The carrying of mails malls to and from the postoffice is let by contract contra t to the wire wagon contractors who are under bonds for the thesa safe sa Ct delivery dellel of mail mall The driver of ot the to wagon is supposed d to turn over oer the mail mall to the transfer clerk of the railway mail mall service who ho is supposed to see it properly dell delivered ered to the car Thomas Orchard transfer clerk at the Rio Grande station stated last night that he was wa not on duty at the time the pouches for No 4 were delivered but that he was at the station He lle stated that the pouches were piled plied on a truck by b the driver of the mail wagon and arid that the truck stood beside the th track unwatched for fully f II half an hour Mr Ir Orchard has been in the mail mall service years ears rh Th loss of the pouch was reported to the local police but so far no trace of the tho missing mail mall has been found The pouch was somewhat lighter than usual and an weighed about 31 to 40 pounds |