Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-10-10
Post offee Robberies.

For some time past there have been
complaints made by the Post Office De-
partment at Washington of the large
number of letters, with money in them,
lost IN transmission through Ohio, and
which Is said to far excel that oil any
other State. In consequence of these
complaints, the United States Marshal
has beer unremitting in his efforts to fer
ret out and bring to justice The d preda-
tors, in which, with the assistance of
Messrs. w j. Brown and 7. p. Shall
cross, the mail agents, he has beeen so
far successful as 10 arrest within the past
FIVE months, no less than eleven post mas
tiers, charged with this system ofspecula-
ton, all of whom have been examined
before the United States Commissioner,
and several held to bail to stand their tri
al at the October term of the United
States Circuit Court. There is no srea-
ter evil than dishonest post masters, and
in many instances the suffering they Gre
ate is almost ~incalculable, an instance
which came under our observation a few
years since at St. Louis.
The head OF a family, consisting of a
wife and FIVE children, having some bust
ness to transact in Texas left for that
place, and when there, discovering that
he might employ himself Tor a time in a
very profitable m nner, he wrote to his
vile in st. Louis, informing her of the
prospect of his heightened absence, and
at the same time sending a remittance to
enable her 10 defray her expenses, for
they were comparatively poor, and ex-
pecting TO return in a short time, he had
left her but little money. Time passed,
and, having finished his businessin Hous-
ton, he went 10 Austin where he was prof
tiably employed for two months longer,
when he returned 10 Houston TO find =
letter which had been in the pOstofice
there for some time, from his wife, in
Which she bitterly upbraided him for leav-
ing her destitute-and stated that she was
about being turned out of her abode in
consequence OF not being able TO pay the
rent.
He Immediately went into the postof-
fee to ascertain ii his letter, which conf
tanned the money he had sent (S150 up
on one of the New Orleans banks) had
been forwarded. He was assured that it
hid and with a heavy heart he sailed for
New Orleans, on his way home, from
which he had been gone nearly six
months. The sorrowlul sequel is SOC
told Arrived at ST. Louis, he found
that his unfortunate wife, who had failed
receiving the letter containing the mon
ey, which was lost between Texas and
that city. and who was in consequence
reduced 10 the bitter shifts, for they were
comparatively strangers in St. Louis,
turned out Of her once happy home, and
Eeart broken in the belief that the hus-
band ofherheartand father other children
had basely deserted her had 6 weeks
previously taken her youngest child, 40
infant of nine months old, and in a fit of
desperation, upon a dark and stormy
night, had cast herself and it into the
Mississippi, the turbd waters of which
soon stil,ed in death the unquiet throb-
bings of Ter madcned BRAIN
The motherless children were, in the
meantime. taken care of by public char.
lily. TIE wretched husband, who, du-
ring his absence. had beguiled the wea-
nv working hours of day with happy
thoughts of a blessed reunion with loved
ones, when he should return successful,
and whose visions at night watt him off
again within the biisSful circle of all he
held dear, might well envy the peaceful
slumbering of her who lay in a suicides
grave-for the body had been found the
day after she had committed the rash act,
washed ashore on Bloody Island-but he
lived for his children, although a broken
spiri ed ard joyless man Cincinnati En-
quirer.