| Show skillful tracking on the day of last july a new york firm nirm sent a registered package containing in montreal bank bills to a firm in port Benton montana when the package arrived at its destination the bills were missing but the space they had occupied was filled with half a dozen cincinnati newspapers these were all the facts known about the case and the post office authorities were requested to discover in what place on the long line of nearly miles between new york and port benton the theft was committed and one of all those in whose care the package had been was waa the thief also to arrest him and recover the money these were certainly very meagre data upon which to undertake such an exceedingly difficult task gen A B spurling Bp urling was directed to perform that seeming impossibility he went to bait salt lake city and then up to franklin in idaho thence by stage four hundred and fifty miles to helena montana then returned to utah and after several months investigations he finally decided that the theft was committed on the rocky bocky mountains between laramie city and green river biver on the night of august ath by one john moore then residing in freemont nebraska kay kas but who in august was a railway mail agent on the route above siaiku having come 10 inese conclusions clu moore was waa closely shadowed for fot to a long time he kept the money till february when supposing it would be safe to use it he sent aman a man to chicago to exchange it for other money 11 nis ais his nis agent was arrested then moored arrest followed all AH but 20 of the money was recovered and moore will of course be sent to state prison and there remain for a few months till the president pardons him it seems incredible that from such an exceedingly slight clue such results could have come and it shows the wonderful skill these government detectives have acquired by close observation and long practice ex ez |
