Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-07-17
ASTOUNDING DEVELOPMENTS!
Loyal ir,ndering at Harrisburg!

ARREST or DErARTIENT MESSENGERS
THEY ARE CHARGED WTn STEALING
Books AND PAPERs-lHREE WAGON
LOADS OF PROPERTY RECOVERED.
SPECIAL Dispatch to tho Philadelphia Inquirer.
HARRISBURG, June 2I.-Quite sensa-
lion was created here this morning by the
unexpected arrest Of number of pessen-
gers and other subordinate attaches Of the
various State Departments. 1t seems that
for some time past, several heads of depart
ments including the State Librarian, had
missed number of valuable books, and
other documents belonging to the State.
The attention of the Chief of Police was
called to the matter, and having reason to
suspect man named Aaron Rapp, doing
business on South street, Mr.. Campbell,
the Chief Of Police, procured a search
warrant and visited Rapps premises this
morning where he found number of the
missing articles slowed away. Rarp became
terribly alarmed and implicated some seven
or eight messengers and other employees at
the Capitol Building, who were at once ar
rested. The Storekeeper was held in one
thousand dollars bail, to answer at court.
Two of the messengers were held in eight
hundred dollars bail; the balance will have
a hearing tomorrow morning. Three wagon
loads of State property were brought from
Rapp's store and piled up in the Mayors
office. Among the captured property are
some two hundred copies of the Adjutant-
Generals recent Report, of over twelve
hundred pages,
From all these Reports the cloth binding
had been torn and the books sold as waste
paper. There were also two hundred copies
of the United States Statutes at Large,
passed at the last session of Congress, in
closed in packages, addressed to the Gov
ernor. These were sold for waste paper,
unopened. Large quantities ofrecent num-
bers of the Legislative Record, together
with the index, were also captured, together
with several United States mail bags, be.
longing to the Post Office, which had been
sent up to the Capitol for documents and
stamped envelopes furnished the heads of
Department. 1t is supposed that this
species of imposition upon tho State has
been carried on for several years, and it has
only now been discovered by reason Of the
boldness of the recent operations.
LATER. |
HARRISBURG, June 2S.-Chief of Po-
lice Campbell has Just returned from Carlisle,
and reports that he found at paper mill,
near that place, nearly ton OF the books
and documents stolen from the Capitol, in
Guiding about eight hundred and fifty
volumes of The Adju,ant Generals last re-
port. A number of y. S. Mail bags were
recovered. Four of the parties arrested
upon the charge of stealing the property,
have been bound over to appear at August
sessions. Great excitement and Indignation
exist here in regard to the matter.
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gsy' George Francis Train drives nail
Of truth in the following brief biographical
sketch of his own life "When l started
out in life, travel was my idol the world
doubted. Then I tried knowledge got
no praise. Then books they ridiculed.
Then languages they sneered. Then pa
iriotism they cheered first, then knocked
me down in Boston, shot me at Dayton,
me at Davenport, arrested me in
&. Louis, and tried to assassinate me in
Alton. But in spite Of this ] have kept
ny independence and individuality. ask
ID this world what it wanted aud am now
levoting my time to that simply out of
contempt for the opinion Of men No more
oftening Of the brain, bu. hardening cfthe
,eart, "