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Show EMPTY MAIL BAG FIBINU CAR Pouch Stolen From Rio Grande Depot Friday Night Is Located. DISCOVERY IS MADE BY TWO POLICE OFFICERS Much- of the Matter Contained in the Sack Also Is Found. In a secluded place in box car No. 32,615, which was standing on a sido track at tho lower end of tho Denver & Rio Grnndo froight depot, with ono sido cut open and practically void of its contents, tho registered mail pouch, which was stolen from a truck loaded with mail bags at tho railroad station shortly before 7 o'clock Friday ovc-ning, ovc-ning, was discovered at an earlj' hour Saturday morning bj' Detective Wilson and Patrolman Golding. Just insido of the pouch there was found a fncing slip of a package of Park City letters and - : l c 11 j u. j. 1. tlUUUli JlilO J.UJ LIIUI UUV. ll tile klUCU tho two officers discovered a bunch of common letters addressed to peoplo residing in Helper, a pack of postcards, one registered letter and a registered package. The pouch contained from thirtj' to thirty-fivo pounds of mail, included in which was thirteen registered letters and packages. Of this number tho contents con-tents of ton aro known. Six of theso contained mining stock certificates . mailed from Salt Lake firms to their Provo offices for transfor, two wcro tho letter and package recovered, this former being addressed to the postmaster postmas-ter at MogoTo, Conejos, Colo. The contents con-tents of this one is unknown. ' Tho other two contained nioncj' orders and. merchandise respectively. "Tho contents of tho remaining threo arc not known, but it is presumed that they did nut contain anything verj' valuable, houco unless there was money or something of that kind in tho ordinary letters, tho thieves, it is thought, got away with but very littlo of any value. Included in the pouch and also in that which tho robbers have in their possession are several special delivery packages. These, although no doubt of a great deal of importance to their owners personally, per-sonally, it is thought that they could be of but very littlo use to tho thieves. Registered Packages. Of tho rcgistred packages containing mining stock, one was sent b J. A. Pollock to Provo for transfer, being certificate cer-tificate No. 1443 for 500 shares of Sioux Con. stock. Tho Dixon Miller company registered out .four certificates certifi-cates to Provo for transfer, for 100 shares each of Colorado stock, being , numbered 474-1, 474o, suss ana 4uiy. Badger Bros, had two packages registered regis-tered to Provo for transfer; ono certificate certi-ficate 1517 for 500 shares of Mountain Lake and tho other certificate 1675 for 500 shares and certificate 1879 for 100 shares of Sioux ConJ stock. Another Discovery. At about 3 o'clock in tho afternoon another important discovery was made by Mrs. Samuel Adams, an employeu of the firm of Smith & Adams Tent and Awning companj-, 55-57 Commercial street, and in the rear of whoso storo' the .find was made. Mrs. Adams was alone in the rear of the storo, and all of a sudden heard a man swearing in tho back alley. She immediately went to the back door, from where slid saw the garbage man collecting a lot of scrap paper which had been distributed about tho allej. As she went out of tho back door the first thing she noticed was a bunch of papers, which later proved to bo postolTicc money orders, piled up beside the door frame. Thinking that sho would be rewarded for her actions, sho immediately gathered gath-ered tho money orders up and proceeded pro-ceeded o notify the owners by telephone. tele-phone. Sho was preparing to dispose of them, but was interrupted bjr Detective De-tective Chase, who held the money orders or-ders and notified Postmaster Thomas. Postal Inspector C. D. Lowe was dispatched dis-patched on the caso, and the money orders, or-ders, together with a number of letters, which Detective Chase had collected, wero taken to the postofTice, from whence thej" will be distributed to their owners Sun daj'. Aside from the pile of money orders, tho garbage box was filled with letters which had been opened, and supposing these to be of no account the garbage man took them to the cremntorv, where they were-destroyed before the post-otrico post-otrico authorities had had time to reach them. Fortune in One. Thc largest of the money orders was that issued bj' the American Smelting and Refining company. The order called for $15,333.65. and was payablo to the Colorado Manufacturing companj-. An incomplete list of values of tho other orders is as follows: $115, $409, $40.42, $100.S7. $55, $16. $59.95 $5, $26.2S, $50, $40.75. $205.87. $1, $.11.40. $5, $25, $2, $10, $2, $7.40, $.10, $S. $1S.41. The letters which were saved are as follows: Mailed from Eureka to Mrs. F. S, Morrison; from Eureka to Miss Susio Jacobson, Provo; from Eurekn to William Watson, Provo: from Moroni to Raphaol Uarvey, Colonia Diaz. Mcx- ! ico; from Eureka to Dr. L. Lisk, Price; from Salt Lake City to Mrs. Lone Anderson; An-derson; from Eureka to Miss Addic Stewart. Provo; from Woodland to Jesse lnight. Provo; from Oneida, Ida., to Mrs. William Johnston, Utah; from Moroni to Mchoin Morlov. Sco-field; Sco-field; from Eurekn to Mrs. Maggie Jones, Provo; from Crovden Utah, -to Frank Calvert. Mvton, Utah. Owing to the fact that tho registered nuul pouch differs from the other bags in onh' one trifling and unimportant particular, and that this must have been understood by the party making the haul, tho .police are of tho opinion that an organized gang of boxcar nnd mail pouch thiovos exists in Salt Lake City. The registered mail bag so closely resembles re-sembles the other bags that it would bo practically an impossibility for a person who docs not know the '-game" to distinguish it from the rest, or the person or persons who made the haul must havo had time to havo examined tho bags before committing tho theft. Theft Is Discovered. It was after tho other pouches had been placed on the train thnt John Eck-land, Eck-land, caretaker of tho mail at tjio depot, de-pot, discovered the shortage of the Grand Junction registered nouch. IIo immediately notified postoffico authorities authori-ties awl tho investigation which was instituted revealed the fact that it had been stolen from the truck, awaiting the arrival of train No. 4. Tho police station and tho sheriff's office were then notified of the theft wec dispatched, dis-patched, but it was not until Saturday morning that anything wan found out. A cnnd!e was found in tho car with the pouch. In speaking of the matter at a into hour Saturday night Post-il Inspector Lowe stated that it must bo tho wnrk of professional thieves. IIo thought that they had evidently taken the contents con-tents of the pouch to some cheap rooming room-ing house and there have gone through the letters and package?, keeping whatever what-ever thej- happened to think might be of use to them. Mr. Lowo said that thero was no doubt in his mind but what tho moncj- orders had been nlaccd at tho backdoor of the Sui'th & Adams Tout and Awning companj-'rf store merolj' as a blind and perhaps for tho purpose of disposing of tho letters. Postal Inspector C. D. Lowo, together to-gether with tho police nnd sheriff aro working on the case and hopes aro hold that tlio culprit or culprits, as the caso inaj' be, will soon bo landed. |
