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Oree.
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spend ohs night ia the oclce. IL proved
% be 4 vary successful night shortly
before midaight heard = scratching in
the lever lotter boxes and carefully be-
gan 70 investigate opeaed = drawer
ahd out jumped big rat watched
him disappear through hole and then
went home.
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In that rats hole 10 fonna scraps Of pa
per. checks ana currency. all used as a
soft DOWN bed Tor the family OF rodents
IL was blessing fore the town, as a new
p0stefsce wHs secured AZ once"
''ons sine" said another inspector,
81 Was fooled BY pair OF high-topped
boots. Many letters had been missing
fEom the mail trains running between
Cincinnati and New York. BY means
q decoy letters traced the robberies
down 10 a railway mail clerk. but was
unable 70 catch him in a theft for a
long time.
After many letters had disappeared
I got mad one wet night and just as
the clerk stepped from his car placed
him under arrest The truth Of the
matter was that l really had no grounds
on which to arrest him, so took him to
a hotel and rented one room for both OF
Us
"A nice CRATE FIRE was made IN the
room, and / took of my shoes to dry my
feet In the grateful warmth. My
prisoner remained quietly in his chair
until I requested him 10 remove his
big boots and feel moro comfortable
Then he began to fdget uneasily.
and / grew suspicious. With a rush
and jerk pulled of one of his boots,
and out dropped three letters to the
floor. The other boot yielded up half a
dozen. Never until that moment had ]
had the least suspicion OF those clumsy,
big boots, and were 1t not for that
lucky crate fire l should probably have
never been able TO convict my man"
What is the most wearing task which
you are compelled to perform?" queried
the scribe.
Checking up the accounts OF ignor-
ant country postnasters, replied the
inspector. II would sooner get out to
unravel the toughest case wsh which
the department is compelled TO deal
than 20 square the accounts Of some
postmasters l know of."-Cincinnat.
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