| Show MAil SLEUTHS NAB ROBBERS Few Postal Bandits Es- Es Escape Escape Es Escape cape Law Most of Loot Recovered Dy By CHARLES FORREST S Special Spatial lal Correspondent of ot The Tho Standard Exam Standard d Copyright 1925 by The Tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated 3 Association W WASHINGTON April Pot Post ll Post General New today made public statistics emphasIzing the fact of of which Gerald Chapman the spectacular outlaw now await awalt- awaitIng awaiting ing the hangman's noose In a prison prison-is prison Is a living nial that it does not pay to monkey with the United States Slates mall Widely heralded heralded a as ho has b been ena as the h he super bandit bAndIt o man of extraordinary darlne and even gence-even even Chapman was wa no match for tor the guardians of the th malls mails IIIi Ills goose coos was cooked that October day back In 1922 when he a a companion held up a malt mall truck In lower New ew York and rifled It tt of 1346 1316 In currency Jewelry and securities se- se se- se ci rOsT L POSTAL SLEUTHS The Th crime crimo for or which he be has lias I condemned to hang bang was not nota nota nota a m ll 1 robbery But It was the work of postal Inspectors who ha camped on hIs Ills trail the dar dar- lag dar Now York mall robbery that landed him behind the th bars bare And it If he escapes escapee the tho ho noose In Con Cou- CouI Connecticut fleet willbo willbe federal authorities will I bo be waiting to take tako him to Atlanta where a year 20 hitch for tor the I mall mail robbery awaLt awaits him With super bamUt Chapman ChArman In mind Postmaster General New was asked to make public eta sta- sta statistics showing Just lust how man mall robberies there th rc had been In recent years and Just how much or how little comfort the th mall mail I thieves millions got out of their stolen lolen mil mU- I lions I FEW PEW GET AWAY Y I The reply was a list Hat of ot 58 S 5 cases eases which 11 have hav occurred since tince July 1 a 1920 20 a period of ot almost five fis- fis fiscal fiscal fis fiscal cal years In these 58 cases the bandits made away with 13 1 14 had been entrusted to Sam figures But they i did didn't nt keep It The fig fig- tit ures ures show that In 24 U of the th DB 58 case cases arrests were made mad and part or all al alot ot of o the tho loot recaptured The total amount recovered was l or per p r cent of all that had bad been stolen Generally speaking speaking- the Uie greater the robber robbery the greater per cen cent of recon y y of the thi 58 AS list list- list listed ed d five stand out a as million dot dot- dol dollar dolI I lar r lobs They were wr the Dallas Daila Texas station hold up hold of January 14 U J 21 the Chicago Union illation statIon up hold of January 18 au 1921 the Nw Now York mall truck up hold-up of o O October 24 21 1922 1 22 the lh St Louis mall mail truck hold liP hold of oc April 2 1 and and the th Iton- Iton S 7 dout clout Ills snail train up hold-up of June 12 1924 The total loot In I these five fhe cases was l The fhe r recovery Cry co was or 75 per cent I MOST INTEREST The great Croat majority of all the mall mall robberies of lh th past five years ears have been committed In the mIddle west and the far west Illinois leads 15 California Is second with 8 S and nd Texas Is third with four New York wIth three case eases cases aDd aud Pennsylvania with two are arc the only eastern states tates appearing In the list Chapman and his pal were the only big bic timers to attempt a really big up hold in the eM east NEARLY XE ALL CAUGHT Losses by mall mail theft have ha stead stead- steadIly stead steadily ily lIy declined In the Ibo past five fl years In the fiscal year yer 1921 there were 16 ups hold-ups with n a total In thefts of In 1922 there were welO 18 It with tn In loot In 1923 1 23 there we were but bul six I with a 0 total of stolen and nd In 1924 eleven cleven with 1958 stolen The Tho current 1958 1 fiscal year which has hall four more months to o shows a surprising drop To Fo dato datI there have ben been n seven robberies with a total loot of only So far this year year und for the first time In there theN five there ha has been beun I nothing approachIng a mIllion dollar man Chap job ob And with Gerald Chap I man tho the Rondout gang eane and most I of cf the tho other big biff Urn time mail mall ban ban- ban ts d bandits behind the th bars bo the il has lias high hopes that I there wont won't be any |
