Show LETTERS EMS FOUND IN PLUM FIJI ALLEY Furnish Important Clue to Fri Friday Friday day Nights Night Mail Pouch Robbery JOB DONE BY AMATEURS LOOT SUCH AS TO YIELD LITTLE OR NO RETURNS Any doubt as to whether the mall mail pouch missing from the D K n G depot Friday evening was simply mis mislaid mislaid laid aid or stolen was settled yesterday morning by the finding of the empty showing that it had been ripped open with a knife and the dis discovery discovery discovery covery of a portion of the contents of the sack As detailed in yesterdays Herald a ama amail mall mail ma I pouch containing twelve regis registered registered registered packages and a quantity of ordinary ordinary ordinary nary mail was stolen from the Denver Rio Grande depot The sack had been delivered from the postoffice and was lying on a truck at the depot awaiting the arrival of or the train which was thirty minutes late Yesterday such developments oc occurred occurred occurred In the case as to lend several valuable clues to the officials working on the case First the mail pouch was discovered in a box car in the yards within a short distance a part of the contents of the sack were found lying 1 on the ground and later in the day an another another another other portion of the contents of the sack was found In Plum Pium alley alle This latter has given both the postal in inspector inspector inspector and the city cit defectives d the principal clue to work on Found in Plum Alley Early In tiLe the forenoon the police pollee de department department department received a telephone message that a mail pouch was lying in a box boxcar boxcar boxcar car near the Denver Rio Grande de depot depot depot pot Policemen Golding and Wilson were immediately sent out and found the sack which showed that it had been cut open and its contents taken out with the exception of one regis registered registered registered letter which the thief pr or thieves had apparently overlooked Some fifty feet away from the car two registered packages and two two packages of let letters letters letters were found on the ground and had evidently been dropped by the rob robbers robbers bers bern The most valuable clue to the Iden Identity identity identity of the thief however was secured yesterday afternoon About 2 James II M Adams who owns a tent and awning store at 55 and 57 Commercial street discovered in Plum alley a number of checks and torn envelopes lying beside a garbage barrel The in incident incident incident was so peculiar that he communicated communicated communicated the fact to the police and an investigation was made which devel developed developed developed the fact that the checks and en envelopes envelopes were a portion of the contents of the stolen mail sack The checks found aggregated 16 and were drawn In favor of the following Mining company com pan Prove Alonzo Wallace 10 Sweet Candy company A Fisher Brew Brewing Brewing Brewing ing company com pan 1841 Hardware company compan 2087 C R Sav Say Savage Savage age company compan H W Doscher W Boatman 5 J T M 11 Marriott Harriott 2 Anne Clawson 10 Goshen Meat company 16 A Ray Ra Homer 50 30 Mercantile company 5 3 Lyon Bros Bamberger Coal company compan 25 23 cash 1 cash 5 Keuffel Keuffel Keuffel fel Esser Co S W S Anderson 2 H A Vannoy Vanno agent 2628 W V S Henderson Consolidated Gas Electric company 1140 Salt Lake Hardware company compan A certificate certificate certificate cate of deposit in favor of F W Kirk Kirkham Kirkham ham for and a money order on Springville Utah for 55 35 were also found in the pile With the exception of the first three mentioned checks all the others had gone through the clear clearing clearing clearing ing house and were remittance from Walker Brothers bank to the Farmers Merchants bank at Provo In ad addition addition addition to these checks were also found lound lounda a bundle of envelopes rifled of their contents and addressed to Colton Spring Glen Provo Prove Green River Bo Bonita Bonita Bonita nita Price Scofield Ferron Vernal and other points in Utah and Colorado This stuff as has been said was found fo nd lying in a garbage barrel in Plum alley and the indications were that this thin and other matter had been thrown in the barrel the stuff found haing dropped outside the barrel The barrel had been emptied earlier inthe day da Upon the discovery of the checks and envelopes Postmaster Thomas tel telephoned telephoned telephoned to the crematory but learned that the garbage taken from the vicin vicinity vicinity ity Ih of or Plum alley that morning had al ai already already ready been placed in the crematory Work of Amateurs The supposition is that the mail sack thief after rifling the envelopes had thrown the mass Into the garbage bar barrel barrel barrel rel and that a portion of it had fallen to the ground That the robber or robbers found their efforts in vain is pretty prett well es en established established Of Or the registered packages none was vas known to have contained money mone Six of them contained mining minin r stock stoel but these of course could not yield money The Te T e stock known to have haye been contained in the registered pack packages packages packages ages Is as follows One was ivas as sent by J T A Pollock to Provo for transfer being certificate No Ko 1443 for shares of or Sioux Con Constock Constock Constock stock The Dixon Miller company re registered registered registered out four certificates to Provo for transfer for shares each of or Col Cot Colorado Colorado orado stock being numbered and Badger Brothers had two packages registered to Provo for transfer as follows Certificate 1517 for shares Mountain Lake in one package and certificate 1675 for shares and certificate 1879 1 79 for shares of or Sioux Con stock The developments in the case tend to show that the perpetrators are ama amateurish amateurish amateurish and that they simply took the thelong thelong thelong long chance on the mail sack contain containing containing containing ing something of value alue that could be convertible to their profit Postoffice Inspector C CD D Lowe is working on the case assisted by both county and city officials |