Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-10
P1CKEp OUT THE POUCH.

and one which shows that some one
was Interested in it who understood
which bag to take, Is the fact that the
pouch taken WAS no different from
any other mail pouches on the truck,
except for ono small particular, and
that this was understood by the party
making the haul there Is no doubt. 9th
erwtse the bag was Just the same as the
other pouches lying all around 1t on
the transfer truck. and shows that the
party making the theft had time to cx-
anime the pouches before making his
selection. 1t also shows that the truck
stood by the track unguarded for
period of several minutes. probably
half an hour, pending the arrival of No.
at the station.
According to the check made at the
postoffice, the bag contained IL reg
istered packages, of which six con-
tanned mining stock certificates mall
ed from Salt Lake firms to their
Provo offices for transfer. One was
the package recovered. which the
robbers overlooked. addressed to the
postmaster at Mogoto, Cone1os, Colo.
contents unknown, the package OF
slippers for woman in Mexico. one
contained u money order. and one con-
tanning legal papers owned by MT.
from Salt Lake City are not account
ed for. and one from Eureka. 1t is
not believed. however, that any OF
the packages contained much money,
and 1t is known that nine of them
contained no money whatever. some
of the four letters not accounted for
may contain money orders. and the
public should be on their guard
against cashing money orders should
they be presented by unknown parties.
BROKERS LOST STOCK.
i y q y . E. Il
OF the registered packages con-
taing mining stock one was sent by
y. A. Pollock, to Provo for transfer,
being certificate No. 1443 for 500
shares of Sioux Con. stock. The Dixon
Miller company registered out four
certificates to Provo for transfer. for
90 shares each OF Colorado stock.
being numbered 4744. 4745, 1883 ana
I4019. Badger Bros. had two packages
registered to Provo for transfer, as
follows: Certificates 1917, for 500
shares Mountain Lake in one package.
and certificate 1875 for 500 shares
and certificate 1879 for 100 shares OF
Sioux Con. stock.
PosTMAsTER's STATEMENT.
Postmaster Thomas says the re-
sponsibility for the loss of the pouch
does not rest with the postoffice, as
when the mall is delivered to the
wagon at the door of the postoifice,
their responsibility ceases.
Thomas Orchard is the man trans
fer clerk at the station, and he says
he was not present when the bag OF
mail was transferred to the truck from
the wagon. although he was at the
station. The wagon driver 1t Is al
legged. placed the pouches OH the
wagon and the truck was allowed to
remain unguarded until the arrival of.
the train when the bags We're trans
ferred to the mail clerk. The shortage
was not discovered until after the
pouches had been placed on the train.
The mail clerk soon discovered tho
Grand Junction pouch was not among
the bunch handed him. and he tee-
phoned the postoffice officials. An in
vestigation was set in motion which
resulted in the discovery that tho reg
istered mail pouch had been taken
from among the bags on the truck,
and it was not until this morning that
the pouch was recovered in the empty
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