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Show MAIL POUCH THEFT TARDILYCONFESSED Cashes Checks for Pensions of Old Soldiers OMAHA. Neb., Feb. S. A man who gave him name aa Benjamin Fuller and hla home at Toledo, O., confessed here I today, the police say, to the theft of I a mail pouch containing $20,000 worth ' of checks at the Michigan Central ! railroad depot at Kalamazoo. Mich. I The theft, the police say. occurred lat fall. According to the alleged con-jfesaion con-jfesaion Fuller obtained between $600 i and 0 on checks which represented I old soldiers' pensions and which were cashed by him In various cities of the ' country. Fuller was arrested here several days ;ago by a detective In a store here for passing a bad check, police say. They i added that they had learned that he ' was a parole violator - from Folsom I prison in California. Folice declare I their prisoner waa In the California 1 prison for forgery. |