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Show FORTY MILLION THEFT CHARGED Ths Postmaster Central Raids Tvve Concerns Which He Sjys Have Robbed the Public. New York - In raids so Important that I'ostmaster tlineriil Hitchcock look charge In pen.cn. hie Inspectors de-iciiiiled tin two concerns on Monday afternoon which Hoy charge with mindlliig the public oul of more than llii.iiiiii.iiotl by fraudulent use of the mulls. The men arrested were officers or directors of Hie Columbia Finance company and I he Continental Wireless Telegraph and Telephone company. Iloth raids are further evidence that the governiisnl. 111 lis warfare against alleged Interstate swindlers, means business ami no lunger will be content with Issuing Iruud orders denying them the use of the malls, hoi will press for convictions on criminal charges. |