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Show Postal clerks admit thefts COUNCIL BIAJTFB. la.. Oct. 20. Six of the 41 postal clerks suspended hero Thursday for alleged pllferlncr of the malls appeured before United States Commissioner W. A. Byers early, today, entered pleas of gullt and I were bound over to the federal grand Jury. I nlted States Deputy Marshal J. W. Mitchell has warrants for the arrest ar-rest of 33 others, many of whom, it was said, arc expected to appear voluntarily. vol-untarily. ESTIM.VI I Wll Mill J,D. It was said at f' deral headquar-ten headquar-ten that IE clerks had made confes-ions confes-ions to the government agents and ' It was expected that the accused men would be forming an almost continuous contin-uous line Into the commissioner's office of-fice throughout the day. No estimate of the value of the articles ar-ticles alleged to have been stolen i from "broken packages," or of the length of time the thefts have ben In progress would be made by J. Ii. kfUSgrove. division superintendent. I MORE MUIESTS 11 i The suspensions were the result of reeks of Investigation ty C. II. Glenn, local Inspector, and Inspectors B. K. j Cain of Rochester, N. Y.. and John l.orlmor of Kansas City. Mo. Investl- j KMIon followed the a nst. convirf'.on and sentence of two years of tuy Hampton, an employe arrested last August on a chargr of stealing money from letters. Inspectors announced thai they had' ecu red confessions from 25 of th men covering thefts of plStO'S, watches. Ilngerlo and even ridlo out-I fits. Eight others are said to hao confessed to minor thefts. Additional BUBpgfiStonS were hinted iv the Inspectors who declared thit poSSihly a total of 50 of the fti) men 1 employed at the station were Impll-1i Impll-1i d. oo |