| Show MAIL CLERK An nESTED W n r houghton Conf oReas to n theft prom from the V US S halis denver center nov Is ov I 1 Post postoffice office inspect tor frederick and city detectives loomis and burlew ot of this city arrested in cheyenne wyoming walter B R houghton boughton a postal clerk running from to ogden on a charge of ate stealing aling a 0 registered package containing the package alleged to have been stolen by houghton II was mailed by a chicago bank to a correspondent in sacramento california about september somewhere lome where en route and an investigation by the postal authorities disclosed that it disappeared somewhere between omaha and ogden tho the secret service officers learned that Hough tons mistress who has been staying in denver for three weeks had changed throe bills and as the money was all in bills they at once made arrangements for hou batons arrest the woman wash was at t first taken into custody and her statements went to verity verify th tho 0 opinion of the officers A telegram received here from che cacy enno states that the officers have solved the mystery of tho the missing package in the arrest of railway TJ mail ail clerk walter G houghton of cheyenne on his return trip Hough tons regular run Is from cheyenne to ogden and on his return from the run west lie he was ordered to make his report at the post office whore where lie he was arrested ila iio was confronted with evidence of guilt and finally confessed to stealing the package which contained instead of as heretofore published houghton II is a younger brother ol 01 fred houghton boughton on who recently served a a year in the penitentiary for robbing his employer a cheyenne merchant after hou boughton liton on had confessed his crime lie he offered to refund the abou amou amount nt 1 tolen except spent provided the officers would agree that he should not be prosecuted lie he declared that if they would not so ho agree the money would be immediately burned united states commissioner T J fisher and united states district attorney dark clark both refused to accept Hough tons proposition and he refused to disclose the hiding place of the money houghton II was bound over to the |
