New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-27

New-York; charged with "secreting embezzing.
and DESTROYING letters containing money" held.
July 81, 1871, in $4,000 bail by u s. Commissioner
Shields. Kirwan and his friends claimed that there
was conspiracy against him.
Mr.. KEMP, Postmaster at Fairview, Penn; ar
rested Aug @ 1871, by Government detective, for
robbng the mail of pension certificate and forging
vouchers to the same held in $4,000 bail to appear
before the U. s. Commissioner the next day.
JUpsoN A. SHELDON, Postmaster at Sparta, Ohio,
was taken to Cleveland, Ohio. May 16, 1871, charged
with removing and using q second time Cancelled
postage stamps he pleaded guilty, and was fined
$3.50 and costs
JOHN w. NORTON, Superintendent of the Money
Order Department of the New-York Post-Ofice; de-
fauter in the of S115.311 Sc the circumstances
Of the case were made public Sept IA, 1871 In July,
Postmaster Jones called for reports from heads OF all
the departments in the habit of receiving or dlsburs
ing money. All, with the exception of Norton, fur-
nshed the required information; Norton deferred
presenting his statement from day to day on various
pretexts. Believing something was wrong the POST
master sent TO Washington for special agent to
assist in an investigation Norton's check-book and
accounts tailed but upon O comparison with those
of the Sub-Treasury difference OF S1l5,3ll 90
against the Post-Ofice was discovered. Upon being
charged with the abstraction of the money, Norton
at once confessed his guilt only alleging that he
had been TEMPTED and yielded to the temptation
He placed all his assets, which amounted to about
S15OOOO at the disposition of the bondsmen OF POST
master Jones. The bondsmen promptly made good
the amount of the defalcatiOn.
ISAAC S. LUNNIGAN, q letter-carrier In New-fork
City; held in $1,000 bail, Sept %, 1884, on charge
of embezzng letters ntrusted to his care indicted
by the Grand Jury Oct. 81 1S71 Jan. A. 1872, Judge
Benedict of the u s. Circuit Court directed the jury
to find verdict of mot guilty." on account OF
defect in the indictment.
GEORGE II. CHASE, messenger in the Post-Ohce
Department, Washington; in September, 1871, ar
rested on charge of stealing gold and silver treaty
seals from the State Department, together with
Frank McGraw, q Waterman in that Department;
they confessed their guilt and the seals which were
valued at between $500 and $500, were recovered III
melted state.
+. w. LENDNUN, a night clerk in the Louisville
Post-Office; arrested in December, 1871, charged
with robbing the mails. Eleven distracted letters
were found on his person.
FRANCIS LIE CLAIR, letter-carrier of Greenlmsh
N Y: arrested in December 1871, for purlolnng let
tiers he confessed the crime.
WILLIAM A. WHITAKER, Postmaster at Bowling
Green, Wood Co., Ohio arrested in December, 1871,
on charge of embezzling money-Order funds.
MICHAEL MURPHY clerk in the New-YOrk Post
Office; held in $4,000 bail, Dec. IS, 1871, ON charge
of embezZling letters intrusted to his care.
JAMES J. REUEY, Assistant Superintendent OF the
Foreign Department of the New-York Post-Othce;
held in $4,000 BAIL JAN II, 1872, charged with EN-
bezzlng money from letters. He declared his ability
to prove his entire innocence of the charge.
Two clerks of the Cleveland. Ohio, POst-Office
were arrested in Cincinnati in January, 1872 charged
with abstracting drafts and money orders from
letters They were admitted TO bail i'll the sum OF
81, 800 EACH
SAMUEL GURIFY. a letter-caTTier in Brooklyn. ar
rested Jan. 25 1872, on a charge of embezzng let
ters containing money from the route boxes III the
Post-Ofllce, detected by means of decoy letters
which were found on his person; he confessed his
guilt, and was committed.
MARSHALL s. P. Lows, clerk in the Mailing De-
partment of the Boston Post-ofice, February 1872,
reported to be defauler to the amount of S9OOOO;
he confessed the crime, and conveyed over to Post
master Burt valuable property accumulated since
he held Office on salary of 5000 year.
JAMES F. BRADY, clerk in the New-York Post
Office: held. Feb. 49, 1872, to bail, in the sum of
So 600 on charge of embezzling letters containing
valentines and seeds; pleaded guilty in March, and
sentenced to six months.
FRANCIS FOSTER Postmaster at Kansas City, Mo-
detected in March, 1872 in retaining portion of the
salaries of the clerks in his employ and appropriate
ing the money to his own use.
RoBERT ELDER, a New-YOTk letter-earrier ar
rested and indicted in March, 1872, on a charge of
delivering letters addressed to other persons to Free
man Cornish, an alleged owner of gift-swindling
enterprise the latter abstracting money from them.
A defalcation of over $4,000 discovered in
April, 1872, in the Money Order Department of the
Fort Wayne Post-Ofice; the Assistant Postmaster,
the responsible party admitted the defalcaton, but
declared he could not account for the loss and mad
not taken a cent of it.
ROBERT DALE, clerk in the Baltimore Post
Office; arrested in February, 1870, on a charge of
stealing letters and committed in default of $1,000
bail; found guilty in April the first and fourth
counts but not on the second and third.
The Postmaster at Alexandria, Va, was arrested
in May 1870 on charge of robbing the mails, and a
special agent was sent to investigate the matter
JOHN +. WOOD, Deputy Postmaster at lndianap-
oils Ind, defaulter to the amount of $500. He
had been suspected of dishonesty for time, but
it was not until the 1st of July, 1872, that the
charges were proven against him. The Postmaster,
Col Holloway it is reported has made good the de-
fciency. Wood married man, age So confessed
that he took the money, which he expended on wine
and women.
GEO. w. DURGN, jr, Postmaster at Fort Wayne,
Ind arraigned in the Criminal Court July 16 1872,
on a charge of embezzling the public funds. He
was also charged with embezzling the funds of a
Loan Association in Fort Wayne.
DAVID L. GEORGE, Deputy Postmaster at San Ber-
nardino Cal. convicted in the United States Cir
emit Court, July 10, 1872 of robbing the mails of
$3.50 90 and sentenced to IS months imprisonment.
The Pittsburgh Post of recent date says that United
States District Attorney Swoope has received in
structions to enter suit against David Hays, late
Postmaster at TiOnesta, Penn, for ENLIGHTENMENT.
The money-order account of Hays is 800 IS short,
and he has been requested to settle but has refused