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Show DISCLOSE CROOKS BY FINGER PRINTS FORTY-NINE MEN WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS FOUND WORKNQ IN NEW YORK POSTOFFCE mployes Admit That They Secured Employment for Purpoe of" Preparing to Pull Off a Big "Cleanup" Washington. Discovery through "flngor printing" that forty-nine of the CO employes of tho registry division di-vision of tho New York postofflce had criminal records was report-od report-od to President Harding Tuesday Tues-day by acting Postmaster General Bartlett upon his return from an In-vestlgntion In-vestlgntion of tho New York offico. All of the forty-nlno have been dropped from tho service, Mr. Bartlett sold. The acting postmaster general told the prosldont tho discovery camo during dur-ing his Inquiry into tho arrest last Thursday of aovon employos of tho New York office, which arrest, postal officials assort, cleared up postal rob-borios rob-borios extending over tho lost, six months and involving nearly $2,000,000. Tho nrrests also aro aald to havo thwarted a glganUc- robbory planned for last Friday night In tho registry division Itself. Mr. Bartlett declared that tho men" arrested had admitted that they had socurod employment in Uio roglshtf division for tho purposo of robbing tho malls. Mr, Bartlott said ho had ordered that all of tho 15,000 employos of tho New York offico bo required to havo fingerprint Impressions made. Both Postmaster Morgan and himself, lid addod, "were fingerprinted," nnd ho was of tho opinion that such a step would be of benefit to tho Borvico, climating tho untrustworthy nnd protecting pro-tecting tho great bulk of honest eim ploycs. MK Bartlott will return to Now York soon to conclmlo his Investigations, Investiga-tions, after which, It was said, ha would llkoly visit tho Chicago post-office, post-office, where numerous thefts havo occured- rocontly in the registry and mall order divisions |