The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-11-11

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ddtor sec.,re>l, ard lie concluded by say
ing that as should possibly want Ia
! search up stairs, hsweuld go up and un
lock the trunks, closets, etc.
AS he went up staits, / slipped Afte
! him, in u minute or two, and peepine
through the crack of his bedroom door
i saw hand glide from un.ierneath
the he'd, and il was A. quickly with
DRAWN - sna ,fH Hv5t, ~ .I4..E
"Mr. Adams, T." said ]. =" what arc you
doing by that he'd? Como out this
way" +. ~-.,t-,.tt- !.u,a.,s .-s...r. .
' why, l WAS unlocking tho secretary
here, to give you q chance" .....
l felt fnnder the be,! bottom, and
brought outa large bag of gold, 49,, .s.,. Do
adams, this is good deal or gold
for poor letter carrier to have on hand.
What were you doing with your hand
under that beti?'
II surrender he said; "it's no use
I robbed the mails for long time, and
threw the envelopes into the Patapsco,
supposing the tide would take them
out, but it only carried them as far as
the opposite side Of the harbor."
He plead guilty TO robhmg one letter,
and 10y the aid of a smart lawyer, got
only two years in prison, was pardoned
out, and actually recovered at law the
gold he bad stolen. ..
ONLY ONCE 4 ThIEF. But FOR S4O, 900.
"Hnu would be surprised to see. some
times, :" continued Depro, chow people
become thieves by the mere habit Of
handling vaiuables, which arc exposed
by somebody's ,carelessness. a short
time ago u package Of bonds to the
amount of $40 900 was stolen in the New
York City Post-ot,ice. They had been
sent from Newport, Rhode Island, and
were for soldiers widows warrants, etc,
SO that the outcry was natural and it
came from all sides. The bonds were
too bulky to go inside an envelope, so
they were tied to the envelope, but this
fact we did not ascertain till we found
the thief. The package was put In n
red backed envelope, signitying reg
istered" letter. Now at the rost-ofiicc
the mail is tumbled upon largo table,
and consecutive clerks go through 1t
each picking out his por-
tion. First Of all, comes the clerk OF
registered letters which are always
letters and him we sur
with spies for two years, in |
vain: for nothing was seen in any place !,
pt a." .t..,,, ." aiua 49, =
dence that he WAS the culprit.
The real thicf-let me anticipate
was the newspaper clerk, who handled
that mall some time ntterward. The
red hacked envelope turned undermost
n the ransacking, aud left the wrapper
III TOP, so that the registry clerk mis-
took it for covered newspaper. lie
therefore left it, aud SO did successive
clerks, till tho newspaper sorter came
along. Discovering this prize among
his books and newspapers, the latter
was seized with sudden impulse to
steal it, and it was at once transferred
to the pocket Of his overcoat, which was
hanging close by. 49,. q,
The thief's name we may call Tippy
Ran,siell, and, when lac got home and
opened it, the poor pauper was so over
come to find himself possessed OF SiO, 900
instead of u ten n-dollar bill, that he was
out of his little wits. He
hid the bonds for nearly two years, ana
we, meantime, havin. exhausted all
means of detection, had given up the
task. -..-
Suddenly we received 4 dispatch:
Bond number 1864 has turned
up .a..s... ...-.-- ....--.., ....
We traced 1t to the New York house
of JAY Cooke & Co. 1t was small
bond for 500, and tho clerk at Cookies
well that it had been pre-
scnted by a boy named NamsdelI,
clerk for bounty agent in Park Row,
who said that he had found it in the
park.
NV mind went back at wink to the
the hitherto unsupported name OF ZIP
RansdelI, the boorish newspaper CLERK.
knew that he had brother ut Eliza
beth. aud that this brother had spry
son, So arrested the boy, and myself
and another special agent went sepa-
ratelv to work with him. The boy had
been well drilled, and nothing could
shake his story that he had found the
bond in the park, while my colleague
tried every means to bring out thetruth
Then went into him.
boy, where did you get that bond?'
IL found it, sir, in the park ~
p "You lie, you rascal! tell me WHO
gave it to you, and if the rest are given
up nobody shall go to jail
lie still protested that he had found 1t
in the park talked to him a While
and found that he was not bad boy,
that he had been to Sunday SchooI,
and had some moral ideas. and ! PIC
tured to lrln hell in all its materi'l
horrors of sulphur, and thirst and
fire.
Now" said I, IL mean to make you
In ~, noth that will send YOU there II