St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-04

department offered 81 coo for the arrest
of Burrows. The railroads also Of
Tered rewards, and a man named Car
ter finally captured him. He was TAX
en- to Alabama and was put into a vii
lage Jail. Carter had gone off to sleep
at the hotel. He left a white man and
two negroes to. guard Burrows. Dur
ing the night the white man went off
into cabin to sleep, leaving the two
negroes alone. Burrows had a little
canvas bag with him at the time of
his capture. He asked these negroes
to get this for him, saying that it
hungry. They did this. Burrows at
once put his two hands into the bag,
and, Notwithstanding the handouts on
his wrists, pulled out two pistols With
them go and bind and gag the white
man, and then made one of the ne
groes bind the other. The unbound ne
gro he compelled to lead him to the
sleeping. He made him knock at the
door and say to Carter that he was
wanted at the jail. The result was
Carter opened the door and found him.
reVolvers. He did not finch, however,
but pulled his pistol and began firing.
A number of shots We're exchanged,
and Burrows was killed. Carter re-
ceived several wounds. but he recov
cred and got his reward.
BIG STAMP ROBBERIES.
One of the biggest robberies of stamps
that the department has ever known
was that which occurred here last fall
at the bureau of engraving and print
a short time has been having the
stamps made by the American Bank
company, of New York. 1t cost the
government seven cents thousand.
Now Uncle Sam makes his own stamps,
and saves 100000 a year by doing so.
Last October, however, it was. found
that two of the employees of the bu-
reau had been stealing stamps by the
morning to find $4,000 two-cent stamps
missing, and it was discovered that
these men had sent out short packages
to the various post offices and had sold
women mixed up in the case, and just
before discovery the men took a sat
chel filled with stamps and ran off
with the girls to New York. They re-
turned within a day or SO and went
upon being arrested, but We're convict
ed,.and are now serving out their SEN
fences in the penitentiary.
4 big stamp robbery occurred rs at It
thieves stole 100000 stamps. They did
it at night, breaking into the postof-
flee and crawling through the. stamp
window. The stamps were locked up
in the safe but the burglars opened it
with a diamond drill. The value of
their steal was about $4,000. They
took their booty to Chicago and tried
to dispose of it there through some men
They had still $4,000 worth of stamps
left when they were discovered, ar
rested and sent to prison. The gang
of burglars in New York do not seem
to have this trouble in disposing of
their stamps: A vast amount of
stamps come into the big cities in the
transmission of small sums through
the mails. The merclEnts. sell them
through brokers at small discount,
and millions of stamps are disposed
of in this way. 1t is estimated that
New York uses 100000 worth of post
age which she does not buy of the gov
eminent. There is no way of detect
ing a stolen stamp, and the postage
stamp fences thus have little trouble
in getting rid of the amounts they buy
of the robbers.
SOME SOUTHERN ROBBERIES.
The officials of the postoffice depart
ment tell me that robberies and de-
falcationS are most common during
hard times. Just about the time of the
panic there were a great many post
Office robberies, and the robberieS were
| most in those sections where the times
were the hardest. A number of ar
| rests were lately made in South Caro-
lima, and not a few in Texas. It is
now about year since Gen. Maxwell
got a telegram describing the robbery
of the mail stage on it's way from Rob-
| ert Lee to Ballinger, Tex. The stage
| was stopped by two masked men, and
! the registered mail stolen. In this mail
| it was stated that there was a letter
containing s., 100 Of money order funds,
| which had been sent from the post
| Office at Robert Lee. Gen. Maxwell
handed the case over to Mr.. Wheeler.
An inspector was at once put to work,
and it was found that the assistant
| postmaster, one of the postal clerks
! and the stage driver had conspired with
| w. F. Buchanan, the president of d
bank at Robert Lee, to steal the s., 100
from Uncle Sam. The postal clerk and
the stage driver, the night before the