| Show SALT LAKE POST POST POSTOFFICE m I OFFICE ROBBED Il Smooth S 1 and an d Daring D ar Thief TI f C if I ng Ie Carries ames Off 0 Reg Registered R I Mail Marl M Matter and Makes Good His Escape i I I A daring thief tampered boldly with the tho United States Stat mall service at about 1030 last night and made his lila escape Eleven Blaven pieces of ot te moll mall went treat with him the value valus benl unknown A careful search made mude this morning by Thomas ana ann the police resulted In the lie discovery of ot evidence to show that tho theft was tva committed by someone outside of ot the th nail and presumably by one who has hall for tor some time boon watching hi chance No clues were found however which would lend lead to the discovery ot ut tho time robber lie He disappeared dl and left no truce trace of or time the direction he took At the he southwest corner of ot time the post there Is II a it I basement window without u II screen the only nitty window along the lie row pw that Is III unprotected At about 10 last night S H II Reeves Hooves the night mall malt cleric was wal wa work Ing In by b tills thit window The night mes messenger m s meager brought In III a II package of or regis reIs I t lured red mall mail lint and handed It to beeves The Tho night clerk receipted for Cor the th bun dle die and without untying It tossed tOll ed It Into a n cupboard at nt his left lert elbow push lag Ing time the door to He lie was In n a hurry to tog g t the outgoing mall mail In tho the hands of at time the messenger To do this ho lie was trims required to tn gi gt I I upstairs In less than twenty minutes he returned Ills His first thought t was wn for tor the lie package of ot registered mall mali which he lie was going to put In tho the He lie reached for or it but It was gone gOlle No one had been near that corner from train Inside the tho Mr Mn Reeves was H hl l called Clerk L A Billings from an another other part of at the and anti they the made o a IL hasty hasl examination together Inri of ot the corner in lii which was working In trout front of ot the tho cupboard whore where Hooves beeves had left the package n a leather le pocket case about eight lIght Inches long was found Neither clerk remembered ever eer having seen Been It before It contained neither papers paper cards names nantes or Ini ml The window above was In Its lis normal position about eighteen Inches out of ot the horizontal and easily I IIII allow lag Ing for tor the tho entrance of ot a man ama Mr Ir Billings s ran out ot of the tho and around the alley which lends out onto Pierpont avenue tho the street upon which tho the High school Is situated At about fifteen feet teet from lives win In dow I ho he found a II registry return card N Nand and n a lading slip showing that the theman theman man opened open d the package before he ho left the ulley 11 The card found that tIme the letter l which accompanied It was wait tf lh Jn td I i e lUll was wa addressed to t Miss Etta Etla of ot Salt Lake IAk tm t of if th mimi ten er Is ls that the tle robbery was tras undeniably committed by some somo one from the out 1 I t r 1 side and by someone who tha had been 1 hanging around long lone Ion enough to know where and when would be he hit ilia chance Il it An All Inspection InI tIn of or tile the this tha 1 4 morning hued that It Would have havo I been the easiest thing thine In the OmS world fog f fl I it 1 a 0 man to tu have hite hidden behind the tein J t dow dew do where It WM was Vii dark until Mr I Reeves went up suit stairs UI amid then lien to I 11 I have hare slid down uto the and antI I getting the package p to jo have made mad n a n hurried escape fifteen minutes before lJ M the tIme theft heft was wan w Not lot for tor n a iV I Ute Ole does the th postmaster suspect uny ully i j I ij j body boily from Inside the office not no alono alone r j I h lie ht imp has Implicit trust rust In every I one of ot thu liv but because every J i timing thing points point to the robbery having been I n i I made from the J I A mu t careful search arch was wall made of or the tile place this morning by Ju Postmaster l 1 Thomas accompanied by a News Newa re me reporter II I I porter In the time alleyway where Mr I 1 i II Milling Billings round found the return Ctrl card and the lading slip the torn ewer cover of ot n a regis i j j f I was Wal found addressed to 1 t r I Ithe I the tIme postmaster of or thin this city It was wail 1 i crunched 1 and a HI looked an u i It hall hail J b been helln un opened hurriedly r In the back backyard f J 4 I yard yani of warehouse j t jl It a few te doors 1100 west tet from frum the pot poet i office there here was Sound found a f few Old tild pieces of at newspaper newspapers and antt some seine 1 J j bread The place looked ery very f 1 much as 5 If It some same tramps had hd been i camping there for tor a few nights at least leant r r The tact feet that some of the d 1 sheet Iron i 1 on the timO fence tenee had hail ben been removed making 1 11 1 a hole hale big enough for far n a mf Inn n to como COU J I It 1 j through lent color to this i The fhe natural deduction is III that the time rob robI I I bery ber was commUted committed by a men man who had I m t been boon hanging around the llAC tur omo 4 time iH The evidence of ot certain employee Il j 1 4 points In thus this direction also One of or i I the lie me ell etl said ald that between nine l 1 and ten last lut night he saw JAW what appeared to be a n dog doe skulking j TI j I along the alleyway Out of ot curiosity I N he lie picked up a rock and threw It In III the I direction of ot the moving object which 1 I 1 straightened up Into a It man and walked hurriedly IY away awa Another cJ also j If 4 sat 1 aw n a man hanging around tho the alley aile fl J I earlier In the evening The men working In the 1 warehouse told Postmaster lo Thomas Thomsa f f q this morning that when wh they thoy left heft last It m night they closed and lid barred thor 1 the tho large Iff i gate ate separating their back yard ar from trout r the alleyway This morning It was WaR r r rt open and Ind the lie wire with which the bar i t was wM bound broken t t It was wa reported also al o to the tho postmaster ster J I H 4 that a few ew days dRYS ago aJo there were lito some sonie b small email thefts from rom offices in the time poo I f J block and that n a of o nl 1 tj C In tho ike ment of ot that ll f Bad llad been t r Mr Ir Thomas Is Inclined to t he II HIP th II man who committed thefts knows kno something about the past t 1 ollie robber robbery of at last night n i tw 1 i I I |
