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Show Mail Clerk In Custody SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 25 Ui:i George T. Foutz, 57-year-old j mail clerk, was released from jail under $1500 bond today after he ' waived preliminary hearing on a I charge of taking money from the . mails in the Salt Lake City post-ofifce. post-ofifce. Foutz v.-as arrested by postal inspectors at the climax of a three years' investigation of the disapeparance of small amounts of money from letters being handled han-dled by the. postoffice. A "spy tunnel'' in which inspectors could stand without being seen while surveying the mailing room was I used in the investigation, j Foutz, a 25-year veteran in the I the money, saying he needed it be-I be-I cause of illness in his family His regular salary was $175 a month and he would have been eligible for a pension in three more years. Before coming here eight years ago. Foutz was stationed in Poca-tello Poca-tello and Burley, Idaho. |