St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-08-10

y SuSetcO Inc fOulc91i Oh; D
sspediat2Aseutssoft theaPost Office Depart
ment in one Of our large cities, and an
,nouneed that he had a serious cass of~mail
depreciation torepors, which he would like
to, have investigated Immediately. Beins,
requestea 70 give lie particulars Of, ! tie
matter. matter. he produced from his ,peekett a let
Ih Ither ~ ;adPIdrefssd 70 himself, qnA post marked
with ". the name of small town, ip the State
Of Of Pennsylvania. en- The enyelop bore unmis-.
taxable t. k'al evidences Of having, been opened
and r,esealed, e, AID the address was. il. o Ia
dy's handwriting. .,.'.,+7.s-,.. ,.,.,u..
,; There, sir" said he, carefully removing
the letter, apd a1P handing the senvelop to the
Agent fors inspection, .sthat, ''ere letters
been robbed by some post office thief Of
twenty six dollars. Now want you to
catch him and put the screws- to Aim-give
him ten years at least. .ssiI don't care for
The loss Of The money! (t ii singular, by
the way. how sublmely ,ndiferentto pecu
mary considerations most people are who
prefer thesef complsiats, shut, Id: like to
see the, rascal caught =. h.:I4tg7 lt,v Cd
~ Now, the Agent having had considerable
previous, experiencein the investigation of
cases Of ''ritling," was quite sensible that Il
very necessary preliminary to such .inves-
LEGATIONS, was as thorough knowledge of all
the circumstances connected with. the affair,
and after a.tentively' examining the envel-
opes, which vas literally bedanbsd VEilh
Nucilage, he observed .'r,' ~ s,.Ss.,- - e.,
:j2'::Well, sic, 1 Iwilltake d memorandum of
your statement, and if il proves TO be a
Post Off e thief as you say. 2; 's.' sF-
lift does, sir? Why. who else can i
be ?e:1sn't there the envelope to speak for
itself-hasnst it evidently been torn open
and gummed up again ? Of course IT'S 4
Post Office thief-any one can see that,
.s,!.::Probably,isir; but daldon's, see it,, just
yet''Bs good enough:to give me the name
Of the writer ofthis letter. 4 .7saA' t'd
1.-The young man hesitated, and att once
his manner became confused aand nervous.
:"I'd rather nes, if it's all the same, SIR. SIR.
It's young LADY, and there are peculiar ca 1ltsa
circumstances, about the case-aad-iin
short, I don't.xant Eheraname mixed up, in
IT." 3D. ,asuss: sfat'oa III .}so's GEsns~i
.1n i.vllIrt ke absolutely neoessarray,i ,raIin
order. to make proper. Investigation, that
Ishonbi know herr .aanae ,s4 " NW'lthoutdrit,, Il
cannot undertake to Dc anything ID 'shs
mpattel;r p teellr:arsynoo sa1os % s1uus:o sis ali
10 The gentlems9s still soughtf for, some time
to avoid giving tRs of lis fratii,r friend,
pat 4s ,l > ogheeed it ::1Alpisa
Mel!!lls.sI ,QtbeF questians folleKeds ae 70
the circumstaheeaMhich sled to the encao-
sure Of the money &c, to which the com: ii,
plainant 1t answered dp an evasiYs, .Islhu
way evidently thriving to conceal aomc-
thing Of whitas hes wasasscretly ashamed'
Percti,ing thaI the Investigation was like
ly to make but slow p,egrsss, @ Viii: hl,: con. on.
Quoted in this fashion, II. the ssAgentf, finally
Observed: 4ad, y.;rod,ra hoas ne bstTqgs1
@..af friend 81 ! .sfhgr ife.too jpEirts,soSs:'i6
waste in drawing, il ffarm.t ion from you %
with. q cork screw ,3aaa you may as,axell
makeup your mind either forgive me d
clear ind suaa7a9a 9aerted' account IL tits trans
action. sde Of yenn 1s srisy1
ance. Norspls~setell ,mA sehya MtaMsl-
VILE sont vr,,--<n~ .I:
mSasy - s,oS .IsG .ystas. seHa AZ XXX en'S
% ITO 1as fss aen ~ fer fle.k.
2:4s.Whhch JoiRwers tot purnhase fop her iA
5aa'Yeszt that 49, i~hisH sIiaAads 'p,ufShdsed
fosrh,,ss,, eI 5soda 1a siana rs ia hsaHala =
Gfs. aaaoy. n +inaEi ssiif .sstsTsa bah
sf'Oh, 4ssase ,Ale, yopnge, ,ladya WAS, probs,
Bly, herodviiting ssnd being Temporarily,
out Of funds you; s4lIdnty 'iotesa Aef tostlcl'
espt !oanls a. =;Sl E s' aasniI q i is,sarsz,
Il ss'Well nor not exactly. The fsot ,is.i,l
senk the, sgoddslte- her sS5nexpress dt hsi.
request .s.e
+ stt''4Apd of equEse, she being IN old. .frieud"
's@.kdo, mot = ;6 afpreeissly, ,ns--ob 1925
eel tkafslatiye thent!nr saw sa .a@1aistaa
70. ~; ;,sgnb .aIassSe5 ,s1M es ,iseE x +
.tiNt o. ,notnil = .s.9.se:a .as.st ss.t ss;:
SIS ss!sAh I zee ing snaaEax and daaEa
efT ss,:IsxIyssso 4.
'Well yes said the youth, with q sheep
|ish simper, and ner1ousi5 swinging his hat
by the rim, as he gazed modestly, on ltAe
Efloor--.we're loy-engaged I mean"
"fslhaps she forgot to enclose the mon: