Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-09-29 | Page 2 | Admit Theft of Mail Pouch

ADMIT AD THEFT OF MAIL POUCH Several Thousand Dollars of Nevada Loot Not Recovered CARSON CITY Nev sept By The Associated Press Press' Allen A. A Bruce and James P. P Smith charged with conspiracy against the govern govern- government ment In connection with mth the secreting and embezzlement ot of a mall mail pouch containing pleaded guilty Wednesday In the federal court here They were to be sentenced Tuesday Bruce a railway y mull mall clerk working out ot of Reno Nev was charged with taking a pouch consigned to the fed fed- federal federal eral reserve bank In San Francisco August 9 1926 to the Westwood Na- Na National National bank Bruce's wife was charged charled With receiving part of the loot Au- Au Authorities saW l that action against her Would b be dismissed At the hearing It eloped developed that of the money bad been ered while Bruce accounted for tor which he spent He said he cached on a hillside near Reno but failed to find the monez mone when postal took him to the scene The Inspectors announced belief that Bruce had withheld Information regarding several se thousand dollars The court on the missing cash that It presented a serious phase ot of th the case