Show f W W I 1 11 14 I 1 I 1 mm WHOSE FAULT is IT incidents of the mistakes of the masses ilass cs ASE lol USE IOU SHIED THAI THIT LETTERI to its I 1 au jim sure SD I 1 hailed that idler utter bat but the t parti ratty didat get il it som some ex er peri caus of the way they di it very few people will believe tho the 8 tat ement that for every mistake roads made by the postoffice post office employees the people make one hundred mistakes so 80 much of the worry and b bother 0 ther about the miscarrying of mails mail alter all Is to ft a very largo large extent courll your own fall fault I 1 t A STANDARD reporter listened to aa an experience meeting inciting last night in which general kimball 1 postmaster and inspectors A T L lawrence wrence and 0 III C spooner gave gaye their experiences with an adin admission iss I 1 on now and then from the reporter that ho lie had made come some mistakes himself which be he had blamed on the post postoffice office A bu business elness man of this city came to me 11 said aid the general and bald said that i bo had ad placed a letter containing a check in in the postoffice poat post office and that his patron had not yet received it and be he wanted it investigated he ile was sure it was placed in the box I 1 and I 1 was sure it if it bad had been it had also been delivered I 1 instructed the boys to watch the box in emptying it and when the letter should come to let me know as I 1 was certain that it had bad not been received it came along all right the next day lay and the time of its rece receipt lot was noted I 1 informed the gentleman and be admitted that his office boy had carried it in his pocket the boy was a strong and healthy fellow and could stand it of course another ca case i in n ir t A certain institution in go aden decio sends ends a package daily to a certain enterprise in salt lake like the time of delivery to the postoffice post poa toft office ice was always marked on the package on one occasion a howl came from the village to the south that the package did not reach its destination ti until the next mail the fact of 0 the time marked on the P package a kage was cited and it looked to the complainants as if they bad a sure case on the postoffice post office the employees were used to handling those packages and looked for one every morning on that morning they received it saw it placed in the bax a bait ball hour after the mail had left the union depot for salt lake the senders of 0 the packages marked the time of mailing but the marking was done in n this case cape in their own office an hour before they carried it to the postoffice post office 1 I ran against a very interesting case in a state east of colorado said mr spooner who was called on for his experience it was a case for a detective and if the parties interested had cared to prosecute it there would have been some interesting material for a jury 11 A in one ono town claimed that he had sent a watch to a man in lao another ther town thirty five miles distant his ilia friend had bad not received it I 1 asked the sender the circumstances of bending vending it why be he sent it he ile said he sent it as a present and he described the package be he sent it in the postmaster said he lie remembered distinctly the receipt of the package at the hands of the tile young man the postmistress at the other end declared the package had not been received cei I 1 ed they knew that the postoffice post office employees had bad stolen it 1 the I he man to whom it was alleged to have been sent said he bad had no cause to suspect the young rn man n of sending ending him a present of a watch as he be was himself dealing in watches and a W n WT M I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 present of that character would be an extraordinary thing I 1 I 1 ila bave re you an any reason to suspect that any one ono would bond you a watch under any circumstances I 1 asked him 1 yes lie replied 1 I have reason to us pact that a i young lady friend of this young man should send to our firm a watch which eho he purchased on credit and which sh she haa has failed to pay tor for in the specified time 1 I then came west and was here some time upon returning t to tho the homo home of tho the pretended sender of the watch I 1 c called on the lady in the case and she said sho she had returned the watch to tho the dealer because she could not pay for it that ehe she carried carice it to the post lice ice and mailed it are you not mistaken tV I 1 asked did you not give it to mr blank to mail no sir air edid idid I 1 did not she replied 0 emphatically I 1 11 1 I took it myself I 1 g gave IT efiem him a ring to mail and th the ef parties artles a received the ring but they cla claim mahat that they did no not t receive the watch which was sent as a the ric ring was to the firm not to an individual member odthe of the fir firm m 1 J I I 1 then approached the young toung man again he ile rehearsed hia his former story and declared he bad as sent at the watch to an individual member of the firm firul after questioning him for I 1 told him what I 1 knew of the case as I 1 ha hai 1 got rot it from the dealer la in watches aud and the young lady there was no bole hol e in the the floor large enough to admit the body of that young man though be he grew very small in a very few minutes I 1 dropped the case right there as there was no shadow of evidence against any of the postoffice post office employees the postmaster who thought he had received the watch got the ring mixed with it and there is no dout be he was honest in bis his statement it was a failure of memory while its true eaid said mr lawrence whose turn came next that many employees are caught in thefts theft 1 3 it is also true that an outsider i is s caught through his own carelessness in handling bis his own mail here is is a case in point there was a reported bank failure in a colorado town and sod one of the depositors was afraid afraid be he would lose his money he ile put up a job to kidnap the cashier of the b bank an k and thus secure at least his own share of the bonev which the bank bad had on hand he ile wrote a letter to bis his mother and laid before her his big plans he also wrote a letter to bis his attorney instructing him to proceed in a suit by that sort of mishap which often occurs he addressed bis his mothers letter to the attorney and the attorneys letter to his mother the plans for the kidnapping of the cashier thus got into the hands of the district prosecuting attorney and the would be kidnapper kidnapped kid napper did not kidnap another outcome of improper addresses A lady came to the tile post office in denver and ask asked e d the speed iest lest method of tending 50 to her childs guardian in kansas city the child being very ill I 1 told her that if she wished to take the risk the speediest ediest plan would be to put a 50 bill in the letter ard send it by special delivery after she had prepared the letter and sealed the envelope she addressed it I 1 watched her as she was considerably elc excited cited and I 1 saw her own christian name on the envelope I 1 asked if she was sure it was properly addressed and she declared it was when I 1 asted asked her the name of the guardian of her child she looked and saw she had addressed the envelope to her baby instead of its guardian the address a was changed of course and the baby got the benefit of the 50 11 general kimball stepped stopped out of the pr I 1 v ate office while this last experience was being related and returned in a few minutes bearing in his band hand seventeen letters which had been I 1 K taken out of a single receiving box co collection not ono carrial a postage stamp one was addressed to england and wore a five cent revenue stamp which of course was valueless for da carrying a letter among these r even letters aters a number were simply addressed to the bat but LO no location was stated these incidents ero are on a PW of a large number which occur continually and still the people complain of the po postmaster st master and bis his employees I 1 |