The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-04-09
A Card.
In our issue of the 26th day of April, 1873,
there appeared tho following article:

In our issue of the 26th day of April, 1873,
there appeared tho following article:
NAIL DEREDArroNs ON THE N. L. & T. II. X.
some time in the latter part of last year
one of the worlzmen iii the shops of the
North Louisiana 81 Texas Railroad located
in this city, in overhauling mail and ex,
envelopes between the ceiling and outer
plank, which gave every evidence of having
| 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 deatl-beat,, Major Edgar
dation. as his letter in our possession shows,
| but no notice appears to have been taken OF
| the matter, although his ack acknowledgements
| is dated tho 18th ofJanuary last. Tho swift
to arrest Pipes and Buchanan, the small
his honest purpose of bringing robbers to
| punishment, in consideration of the parties
likely to be hsGSsht up in R aa9 robbery Front of
| what we can gather only one of the trains
sent on alternate days from Monroe, was
subjected to the mail robbers inspection,
and this was Mr.. Harry Lewis's train, on
which tho young Messrs. Rays were in
it's Officers have anything to do with the
mails, but these young men had the pouches
and mail matter in full charge, and it
beiooyes them now to answer fully this
I grave accusation against their fidelity. We
th er.
At the time of the publication of the
, above article, our attention had been called
to repeated irregularities in the MAIL and
rcpeated solicitations had been made of the
Editor of this paper to cali public attention
, to the facts. In obedience to Il duty which
we thought was imperative, the above
, article published, upon information
, furnished us, which we, at the time, con-
. sidcred sufficient foundation for the arti-
= Gle.
SUBSEQUENT Investigations have proved
. that we did tho "Messrs. Rays" injustice.
Robert Carson Ray was not mail agent
. during any part of the time i'll which the
. Irregularities were alleged to have been
committed, but mail agent on tho
. Railroad at tho time the above article was
: published, and tho article WAS construed tc
= duplicate him, though in fact we had nc
intention of abiding to him.
Upon Information which we believe to bt
correct, James b. Ray ick from the
4th day of Juno, 1872, until tho 9th day O.
September, 1872, inclusive, and was not i,
charge of the mails on the Railroad betwee,
those dates. Fifteen out of the seventeen
letters lost set forth in the list pu blished
, in our issue of May Sd, 1873, bore post marks
of dates between those days and it was
impossible that james i. Ray could have
been concerned in the loss of said letters.
Tho statement was erroneous that "these
young men had the pouches and mail mat
ter in full CHARGE" during tho time in which
the irregularities were alleged to have been
committed. We therefore, eXonoratc the
young Messrs. Rays from tho ''accusation
against their tidelity"' which tho above
article stated it ''behooved them to answer;'
and we state that no criminality attached
to them.
April 5th, 1875. q. w. MCCRANIE.