The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-19
GirOux Consolidated Copper Com.
pany's Mail Disappears On
Way to Post Office.
STRANGER DROPS FROM,S|GHT
Payment On Securities Is stopped
And Search For "Rafiies" Is
Instituted.

The theft of a bundle of envelopes
addressed to various merchants.
tradesmen and professional men Of
! Ely, containing checks of the aggre-
gate value of 81 10000, while in
transit from the Office of the GirouN
| Consolidated Mining company, to the
local post Office, is puZzling the of
fcials OF that company, the local post
Office attaches and the city marshal
og,heriff and their re-
and 'd1IS - sleellve
| forces.
The theft was accomplished in the
most easy manner that could have
| been suggested. and while industri-
Gus and painstaking search has been
made for the thief, he has thus far
been able to completely cover his
tracks, though il is believed that he
took Tuesday mornings train for
Salt Lake.
The Giroux Consolidated com
/ pany's practice is to pay all local
accounts on the 18th of each month
! Following that custom, the checks
covering all local accounts for the
month of August were written, filed
in and signed at the company's Of
fees Monday. These were to have
been dropped into the local post Of
flee Monday afternoon, but have new
er reached the office, according to the
attaches.
j. S, Harris, a driver employed by
| the Shelton-lloltzman Lumber COM
pany, delivered a load of mining tim
bers at The mine Monday afternoon,
and was requested by one of the Of
flee attaches to stop at the post Office
on his way to his employment and
deposit a bundle of large envelopes,
which he agreed to do.
The envelopes were stamped and
properly addressed. Harris placed
the envelopes in his pocket, mounted
the seat and drove toward town.
Stranger Appears on Scene.
A few minutes after leaving the
Offices of the GirouX Consolidated,
Harris was stopped by a stranger
who asked for permission to ride to
the city Permission was readily
granted and during the ride the
stranger told Harris that he had been
working for short time in the mines
of the district and was just then out
of employment. He said that he was
planning to leave town.
AT the post Office Harris stopped
the team, and the stranger alighted
from the wagon. starting for the
post office door. Harris called to
him to post the bundle of letters
which had been entrusted to him by
the clerks at the GirouX office.
The stranger Immediately returned
to the wagon, took the envelopes,
placed them in the side pocket of his
coat and re-entered the postoflice.
Harris waited until the man had re-
entered the postoflice, and then drove
off, thinking no more about the mat
ter.
Harris Tells His Story.
When the checks were not found
in the mail Tuesday, inquiry was in
stituted at once The result was
that Harris was called up by tele~
| phone. and told all that he knew
of the matter.
Harris gave complete descrip-
| ton of the man TO the officials CT the
| GirouX company, and Charles r.
Reeves, attorney for the company
took up the matter at once in an ef-
| fort to trace the movements OF the
mysterious stranger.
|
cally to discuss the matter last night
saving that he did not care to go into
the question. He said, however,
that no blame is attached to Harris
by the officials of the company, who
are convinced that he told an abso-
lutely straightforward and complete
story.
Has Good Reputation.
Harris is as greatly agitated over
the loss as Is the company. He feels
his position keenly. and regrets that
he had even an innocent part in the
disappearance of the checks.
Il have known Harris for a long
time" said r. II. Holman, of the
/ Shelton-Holzman Lumber company
to The News last night. He is one
of our most trusted and reliable men.
We do not believe for an instant that
a shade of suspicion can attach to
him. We have absolute confidence
in his reliability and integrity, and
| would vouch for his honor with
my own,
Among those to whom the checks
were issued were the following:
Wheeler Supply company. Haff &
Colwell. Graham Mercantile company
Stables. Charles r. Reeves and the
Shelton-Holzman Lumber company.
Never Reached PostofIice.
An attache of the postoffice was
asked if envelopes similar to the
ones used by the GirouX company in
mailing their checks were placed in
the postoffice Monday night.
''No such envelopes were seen by
any of the attaches of the office The
envelopes never reached the office or
we would have recognized them and
would rmember them, now that our
attention has been called to the mat
ter. They We're never dropped into
the mail chute.
1t is not at all likely that the
postoffice department will be notified
of the loss, in view of the fact that
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