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Show LAD PUTS CHECKS IN WASTE BASKET MASON CITY, Iowa. Jan. 7. A Si : through the contents of .he waste paper baler at the postoffice today to-day revealed S23.000 in checks to add to the $7,000 thoft of which Cecil Jensen, nine-year-old son of Mbert J Jensen confessed late Friday. jConfronited with tho additional check. 1. tho boy admitted to stealing them from boxes at the postoffice and hiding them In tho lobby waste paper basket, according to tho police. Along with .ho checks in tho baler were contracts and mortgages which will bring the total amount involved In the robberies to well over JiJO.uOu. The boy's arrest followed his pur-chaSe pur-chaSe of candy tendering a check for $5.89. |