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Show Fouud th I'oMtal Thief. Philadelphia, July 31. Chief o Detectives Wood expects soon to be abb to clear up the mystery which has ei i rounded a series of daring postoiii'-' robberies recently committed in Yir ginia. John Cusick, a horseshoer living here, and Tim Burns who says he is brakemau on the Reading road, havi been locked up to await the action the Virginia authorities. In the possesion posse-sion of the prisoners were found a om-plete om-plete set of tools for opening safes, hundreds hun-dreds of dollars' worth of postal stamps of all denomination, and a bv of old coins. The arrests were brouh about by a telegram from the Chief o i'ol.ce oi Richmond, Ya., asking Wi m .o examine a box whu:h had been s'lip ed from Richmond to -'ohn Cusiek o: .his city, and wlrch was supposed U contain stolen goods. Detectives f-miid the box at Cusiek house. Cusiek was placed under ;iric! i, and when his rooms were searched a leather grip was found which not otilj contained a kit of tools, but also a.; official envelope which had been sen' from Washington to the postniastt; at Quicksbury and which coniaine? what was evidently the whole stock stamps on hand in the office at tin rime of the robbery. Cusiek at fir.-.! denied any knowledge of the box and its contents, but finally said they ha; been sent by some one unknown to him ; t Tim Burns. Burns was then arrested and in hi'-:oom hi'-:oom was found anotl-er grip lilhi, with stamps and a box of cuius. II also denied knowing anything ab uJ the articles, but was confronted i; .Mrs. Cusiek who insisted in his pre nee that the articles belonged to bur .i nd not to her husband and he Inn , iaken them away from the house. Ib then admitted they had been sent him. but did not know who sent them. |