The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-29
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THREE BOYS ARRESTED IN NEW HAVEN.
The New Haven (Ct.) Pdaadium Of Friday
evening says:-
Three boys, sons of respectable citizens, weIe
arrested Yesterday by Deputy Mar,hal Loyeioy,
Tor obtaining letters from the Post Office under
false pretenses. They obtained, among other
matter, the mail for United States Revenue
Collector Woodruff. In this mail was a letter
sand dollars, it is reported. Two Ofthe boys can
hardly have passed their twelfth year; the other
is fourteen or fifteen. They are now held for
trial. The facts are thcse;-
Recently Eli Whitney, of the Whitney Arms
Company, Whitneyville, missed several letters
which ne should have received through the
, NAILS The frequency of these omissions at last
led him to suspect his Irish boy Patrick Sulli-
van, who had key 10 the lockbox OF the
company, and who was in the habit Of bring
ing The mails. Accordingly Mr.. Whitney stepped
into Colonel Wneht's office and had a warrant
made out for Sullivans arrest. Before, how.
ever, he had arrested Patrick, other de-
velopments came to light which put the
officer of the law on another scent Word
was sent Mr.. Whitney that boy had
offered check in favor of Mr. Whitney at the
City Bank, and at the Orange street Savings
Bank, and that at both places the officers had
refused TO cash it. By dint oftnquiry they ascer
tanned that the name of the boy who had offered
the check was Frank Hultze, son Of black;
smith residing on George street. They found
him at the High School on Orange street. On
being questioned, he said the check was given
him by Edward Foote, son of Joel B. Foote of
this CITY, They then went to the school OF John
+. Lowell, Esq. where they found young Foote,
who said in turn that he had been given the
check by a boy named Albert Mugtord. To
Mugford next they went. They found him in
the Eaton School. On being informed OF the
nature OF the business OF the Deputy Marshal, he
at once made an open and clear confession, say
ing that he had taken the check, and that he
had got 1t by means of key which had been
dropped on the floor of the sChool-room by his
seatmate, the Irish boy Sullivan This explained
matters a little, and of course eXOnerated the
suspected Irish lad.
the son of gardener employed in this city. All
are boys of unusually frank and open appear
ance. Mugford is the Oldest, and apparently the
more cunning OF the three. He, however, can
didly stated that he got the other boys TO go in
with him into the letterstealing business. From
| facts obtained from the boys IL was asCertained
that the key had been in their possession some
| four weeks, and that the number OF letters
| fraudulently obtained was about two dozen. All
| the clean profits they had obtained from the
| operations would not, however, amount to more
than twenty-five cents, as the letters contained
either checks or drafts, or else were mere busi-
| ness documents.
'he boys explained how the check in favor OF
! Collector Woodruff came in their possession
they say that one OF the letters they found in Mr..
| Whitney's box had the number of Mr.. Woodrutfs
| box upon it. With this information the Hultze
| boy went to the post office and called for the
| letters for Mr. Woodruff. The .sclerk, thinking
| the boy had no business to take them, asked
him what right he had to call for them. Hultze
| replied that Mr.. Woodruff was in Mansfieds hat
! store, and had sent for them. The answer being
! deemed satisfactory, Hultze was given the let
tiers. Among them was the check, which was g
| $1,000 one. This check the Hultze boy delivered
| upsat Mr.. Woodrut's Office yesterday, his mother
accompanying him there"