The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-12-14
PRICE THREE CENTS.
STEALING FROM THE MAILS.
A CHECK PICKED UP IN THE srRrF1
CAUSES CLERK KEYS ARRRSE

He PiiIseed at ssntion r the Money Letters
orOut-of.Town ymous Ae.
eusations fThsu Lead to Another Arrest.
Business houses and citizens who receive
letters through Post Onice Station T., at Sixth
avenue and Thirty-third street. have been conn
planning OF the loss Of letters containing arti.
cies OF value. From Oct. to Dec. tho dry
goods firm Of Stern BfOthcrs reported the loss
ole eighty letters. H. Noill h Co. sixty letters.
and b. Altman 4 Co. irty letters, said TO con.
tain money orders an postal notes from out.
of-town customers.
Post Oficc 1nspcc Nowcomc received re.
Gently from Station a check for 400. 80 drawn
by Edwin Tucker tho Eureka Bank OF
El Sr SH. Kan; and yabe to stern brothers.
street opposite 100 Broome street by a pcdos.
trian md hnen taken TO Stern Brothers, and
sent by them TO tho Post Oflice
. Tho name OF Albert Jacket, furricr OF ~ st
n maIN h na &C. anreared as endorser lie dc.
sT t Nswson hsS Mns male ~ him
lorssash with % fDeS OF mall in eer rn.
"na sat whs on the FGi. oIgs and
at mo SsafGn 5 3 sss with his widowed
SulGrntendcnt richards yesterday asked
nnetk my My to accompany him 10 the General
aI Sst oncs ON plishng Ct the Park place
following. saw KEY drop paper. which proved
ten ns t5 rs fIHTd postal note for t50 IN.
Office Key broke down and acknowledged him.
sell thief In his possession tho Inspector
lounu postal notes. money, and postage STAN ms
representing $40. Commissioner Shields held
the prisoner in 81 800 bail and Deputy Marshal
Coiiax took him to Ludlow street Jail Klev
mas ooeh empioved two years in tho Post Ofice
On sept 20 Post ONCE Inspector Newcome
Eot an anonymous letter. which was signed
ono who Knows" and purported 10 give in
FORMATION about certain railway postal clerks.
The envelope had an uncancolIod stamp on It.
A second letter. dated Nov. T. alleged that tho
men named In the first letter had been seen i'm
mo Bowery with fast companions, exhibiting
checks mailed by the Metropolan Bank az
this city to Hartford and by John Patton q Co
bankers OF % William street. to Hartford. A
third anonymous letter. received on Nov 49,
said that mail clerk in tho Boston and Proyi.
dence Railroad Post Onico car had boon seen
with several money orders and a check nailed
atthe Danbury Post Office for Newark.
Inspector Newcome got word from In spector
Charles Field of Boston that similar anonv-
nous letters had beon sont to him. Banking
houses In this city and Boston complained that
they missed letters Of value addressed TO them
through the mails, and the Chief Post Offico
Inspector at Washington wrote to Inspector
NeWcome That an anonymous correspondents
had written him that the Post Oflce detectives
were Dot smart enough to discover tho thief.
L ne anonymous letters were written with an
engrossing pen. Inspector Newcome sus.
pected Frank jerks. II Boston and Providence
railway mail service clerk. OF being the writer.
OF the answer received to be tho
Same as that OF tho anonymous letters. jerks
was arrested on Wednesday. and held in Bos-
ton in $1,000 bail. Who stolo the letters has
not bcen discovered. The technical charge
against jerks is using cancelled stamps,