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Show ASSISTANT POSTMASTER AT YONKERS IS REMOVED; SERIOUS CHARGES MADE NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A stack of letters Is reported to have been found yesterday by inspectors in the home of Isaac G. Downing, who was removed from the office of assistant postmaster at Yonker8 last Saturday by orders from the department at Washington. Mr. Downing had been assistant postmaster post-master for more than thirty years under un-der all administrations. The Inspectors are said to have obtained entrance to his home secretly and were astonished when they discovered the letters. Down-was Down-was remove'd and left the office In response re-sponse to the following message to the pofct master received from Washington: This office is in receipt of an Inspector's In-spector's report In which the removal of Isaac G. Downing, assistant postmaster post-master at your office. Is recommended at once on a charge of shortage In the money order and the postal accounts; of falsifying the records of the office and general incompetency. The charges against Mr. Downing are fully sustained and you are hereby authorized author-ized and directed to remove him from the service and to advise him by letter of the reason for the department's action." ac-tion." For several days inspectors have had Downing under surveillance and on gaining secret entrance to his home proceeded at once to make a thorough search. The report was that the mail sack was a regulation one containing' more than 250 missives, some of which had not been opened. Some of the ; postmarks dated back several years. Following the investigation at Yon-kers Yon-kers stories have become public of several sev-eral mysterious shortages in recent years. It Is related that one year ago a former ckrk In the office had to make good a shortage of nearly 1600 and died from grief and shame, protesting his Innocence. |