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Show disclo'seIrookW I BY FINGER PRINlA 1 FORTY-NINE MEN WITH CRIMINAL V AS RECORDS FOUND WORKNQ IN V flK . NEW YORK POSTOFFCE y t m Employes Adrntt That They, SecurH ,. 9B Employment for, fiurpoe ofi. flfM Preparing to Pull Off a isHJ' Big "Cleanup" '!Hi Washington. -Dl3covory through ' tsHl "fingor printing" "that forty-nlno of 9H tho 00 employes of tho registry ol- Bl vision of tho New York postofflcn Bl had criminal records wns report- iB cd to Prosldont Harding Tues- K day by noting Postmaster Goncrnl Bf Bnrtlett upon his return from au In- K vestlgntlon of the New York office. HJi All of tho forty-nine have been dropped Bf from the service, Mr. Bnrtlett said. K ! Tho acting Kstmustor general told ' B , the president tho dlscovory camo dur- j B, ing Ids inquiry Into tho nrrcat Inst j B ? Thursday of seven employes of thn ( B New York office, which arrest, jtostnl j B officials assort, cleared up postal rob- , B borios extending over thn last six H months and Involving nearly $2,000,000. . BH The arrests also are Bald to havo 'mm thwarted a gigantic robbery 'planned WM ,4 for last Friday night in tho registry ' B division Itself. 'jR- Mr. Barllcti declared that tho inon '' Br' arrested hnd admitted thnt thoy hnd ' Bj secured employment ' In the registry ilKll division for the purpose of robbing (LVh tho mulls. 'Blt Mr. Bartlott Raid ho had ordered aJBli that nil of the 15,000 employes ,qf tho ' U New York offlco bo required to have IsHl fingerprint Impressions mnde, Both 'sHr Postmaster Morgan ntid himself, he 'Bf1 addod, "Wero fingerprinted," nnd ho B' wns of the opinion that such n stcn 'IssB would bo of bcnoflt to tho scrrtco, IH1 climating tho untrustworthy and pro- R1 toctlug tho great bulk of honest em- K?j ployos. B Mr. Bnrtlett will return to New iB ' York soon tfl concludo his Inyestlgq,-. 'B - tlons, after which, It wns snld, he ijLB1! would likely visit tho Qhlcngo post- B , offlco, where numerous thefts hnvo B occurod "rocontly In tho registry and B mall order divisions. ' j B S |