The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-10
WAS TAMPERING WITH MAIL.
BoGERT OF WILKES
BARRE IN THE Tolls.

ret service Men Caught Him
oo,inn Letters Addressed to
,,-.,-knoyyn Business Men-Gave
naua for S4.COO-He Has Made No
st,tement About the Matter, But
,,timntes There Was Plot
AGAINST Him.
v,uzesbarre, Pa March s.-Edward F.
p,-.rt postmaster of Wilkesbarre, was
4 o-,s-rad to-day, charged with tampering
uif5 the United States mails.
,aout two months ago several cem-
-l.fpts were lodged with the postal au-
,b,rities at Washington that mail was dis
!. ann. airing. or that which they received
rore evidence of having been opened by
the steaming process.
5 The postal authorities subsequently, de-
tal,d TWO secret service men on the case
prd7r orders of Inspector German. Last
night, after the mai from Baltimore and
& Washington arrived, and had been dis
tributad. Bogert entered the office and was
seen to take several letters from the boxes
q and then go into his private Office and
carefully draw down a curtain. The de-
q tectives went to the office, and without the
E ceremony of knocking. entered and there
a found the postmaster seated at his desk
on which lay three letter addressed to
B prominent business men of this city, and
81 ell of Them opened BogeEt was taken be-
fore United States Commissioner Hahn,
where he gave bail in. $4,000 for appearance
8 later
a Mr. Bogert, besides being editor of the
Evening Leader of this city, is a member
OF a large number of lodges, and for the
q past ten or twelve years has been an ac-
ave member of the base bail association
q He is a brother of the late Joseph K. Bo-
q CERT a gentleman who was prominent IN
q Democratic county and state politics and
& who at the time of his death was post
master.
81 H B. Gregory one of the postoffice IN
h spectors from Washington who helped to
make the arrest stated to a reporter this
&evenng that he came here from Wash
#ington on Monday morning and had been
Hat work on the case ever since. Frequent
complaints had been made to the postal
& authorities al Washington as to the irreg-
#uariues in the WIkesbarre office, and Mr..
#Gregory said a thorough investigation had
#shoWn that the allegations made were
#true.
Nh Gregory would not divulge the names
HI those who made the complaints. but
E&NHA iiot 4ASoltdtS 10 say N0dL the evidence
was ample to cause the arrest and estab-
Dish the proof of the charges made.
n Deputy German is in charge of the post
ofice for the present.
q Postmaster Bogert would not be inter
sFiewed but in his paper, the Evening
Header, tonight appears the following:
There are always two sides to a cues
iion, and when there are three or four fell
S lows, and one or two in particular, clamor-
slng for political office, and hungry for
Pine emoluments attached thereto, there
&c sure to be schemes worked and plans
Hormcd to entrap the incumbent, cause his
Femoval and punish him otherwise, even
u for nothing further than the annoyance
and chagrin that the accomplishment of
9heir devilish underhand work imposes.
When the diabolical schemers are fully
fhoNn up, and their nefarious trickery
exposed there is a question as to which
pa will furnish the raciest reading
The inference to be drawn from the
bove is that Bogert imagined himself the
victim Of conspiracy to GUST him from
he postmas tership, and in order to dis
power the conspirators he opened letters
addressed TO Republican politicians.