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Show I MAIL SACK STOLEN; YOUNG MAN ARRESTED Burley, Idaho. Nov. 9. A telerram was received at this place last evening even-ing that David K!dd, a young man of Cassia county, had been arreEtod in Bortland for stealing a mall sack containing con-taining first class mall, from the Bjr-l.y Bjr-l.y depot two weeks ago. Suspicion centered 0.1 Kidd when it was learned that ho was known to have been in the vicinity at th time the mail sack was stolen from the depot, de-pot, because of his having serv.l parts of two terms in the state penitentiary, peni-tentiary, and w-as looked upon as a:i unreliable character. The mail aack. with part of its contents, con-tents, was found on the bank of the Snake river, a mile north of town. Footprints were visible In the sanJ. and Marshal Underwood of Burley j compared these with tracks made by a man earlier in the day when he op-plied op-plied for work at n gravel pit near town. The tracks were Toi.nd to be I 'fntle.il, and it was b-arned that eld was the man who had mad? application ap-plication for work. The city marshal reported his findings to the federal authorities and a detective was put to work on the case. Ixarning that Kidd had left town, he was followed, and when apprehended apprehend-ed and arrested In Portland confessed to the theft of the mail sack. |