Show A THRILLING DETECTIVE STORY the exploits of two government sleuths old in a the government publishes a great variety of matter in the course of a year from presidential to a history of diseases di of the gadfly aal the variety cf reading matter has been increased within the last few days by the publication of a real detective story with diagrams according to gaboriau this is the history of the sandbagging sand bagging and robbery of a stamp clerk in the chicago pot office one dark night last winter when alie wind was whistling around alie corner and the sleet dah arg against alie windows the story of alie crime and the vain search of alie two government sleuths for the criminal are given at great length and in the minutest detail all of this is contained in a pamphlet of eleven pages accompanying a claim of the late postmaster for the amount of the robbery which he was compelled to make good there are a number of diagrams to illustrate the story one of them shows where the body of the clerk was found the door where miss jones came in the window where the robber escaped the door where the robber entered and other minute details another diagram shows the postal clerk as lie stood at liis but f ih to represent the robber and the sandbag although everything else even to miss jones desk is portrayed viv adly many pages of closely printed type cleod the lii story of the efforts of the government there were two theories to work upon writes one of them first that Il eliud robbed himself and inflicted upon himself the injuries to cover up his crime or that some one familiar with the office and with the habits of mr robinson had planned and successfully put in execution the robbery I 1 called to my assistance the superintendent of the pinkerton agency of aliis city who rendered me every assistance in his power without cost to get some clew to the perpetrators of alie bold robbery we have worked upon every plausible theory but have failed to get any clew to lead us on a successful trail the outcome of the work on these two theories is reported as follows the result of the investigation in this case has convinced me of two things first that it was a bona fide robbery second that it was conceived and planned if not perpetrated by some one perfectly familiar with the workings of that branch of the postal department in this city but the plan was so well executed that up to the present moment we have been unable to get a single clew that would fasten the guilty party so the robbery remains a mystery alythe thrilling story of the two government sleuths goes on file in the annals of congress |