The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-05-03
MAIL ROBBERIEss ON THE RAILROAD.
Plenty of Sign-Who is Guilty?

Mail Dcprcdntions OH the N. l.. & T. Il. X.
Some time in the latter part Of last
year one of the Worknen in the shops
of the North Louisiana & Texas Rail-
road located in this city, in overhaul
ing n mail and express coach, found a
number ofletters and envelopes betwc cen
the ceiling and outer plank, which gave
every evidence of having been broken
open and robbed. n list of these letters
with date of mailing, and the names of
persons who witnessed.the finding, have
been placed in our possession. Some
Of the letters were mailed here and
others mailed elsewhere. The post
Office special agent and newspaper
dead-beat, Major Edgar Selyc, was mott
fiNl promptly of this depreciation, as
his letter in our possession shows, but
no notice appears to have been taken of
tho matter, although his acknowledged
ment is dated the 29th of January last.
The swift-footed Special Agent, who
was so prompt to arrest Pipes and Blu
chanan, the Small-fry mail robbers, has,
it seems, abandoned his honest purpose
OF bringing robbers to punishment, in
consideration Of the parties likely to
be brought up in the robbery of letters
on the N. l.. & II. Railroad. From
what we can gather only one of the
trains, sent on alternate days from
Monroe, was subjected to the mail rob-
bcrs inspection, and this was Mr.. Harry
IIeWis's train, on which the young
Messrs. Rays were in charge of the
mails. Neither the road nor its officers
have anything to do with the mails,
but these young men had the pouches
and mail matter in full charge, and it
bchoovcs them now to answer fully this
grave accusation against their fidelity.
We purpose looking into this business
still further.
In order to present SO grave a matter
a. that in hand fully before the public,
we reproduce, from last weeks paper,
the above local. In prosecuting the
inquiry there promised, We have found
reason abundant to believe the robbery
of the mails was pcrpctratcd ON the
train specified, but in the effort to idcn-
tiCy the guilty party We have been I'M
successful, owing to the want OF data at
this post Office. ltappcars very clearly,
however, that our first Information ;S
to the young Rays was wrong in this
only one OF the maine, JAS. Il. Kay,
w se' VIZ tii' PIX tiCttiiti tl;tih curing any
portion of the period covered by the
post marks OF the robbed letters. his
place, rs the regular agent on that train,
being supplied from Sth June, 1872, to
10th September, and on 10th and 18th
of same month, by W. II. Hanna, and
from the latter date by himself, or, for
brief periods, either by Messrs. Hcwsou.
HaClh orJ. IL. Diukgrave. Mr.. Uaclh,
We have found, was on that train two
u three half trips, Mr.. Dinkgravc
about the same number, and it does not ,
appear, from what we can gather from !
he records at this post Office how many
rips Mr.. IIcwson uadc on the train in !
question, but it seems he was on it at .
east one or two trips, or half trips
Trains leave Monroe and Delta, the
crmini, the same days, passing 1T
IalCom Station; and occasionally the i
QUITE agents exchanged trains there,
which accounts for tho half trips mon
toned.
We proceed now 10 present the cyi-
cnces OF robbery in our possession.
The train which we have designated {
lad, rs mail and express car, an old :