The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-06
TRUSTEDQERK
 EMBEZZLER (. (. Davis, Distributing Clerk. Pleads Guilty. CAUGHT BY TIE INSPECTORS Watched on Complaint of Father J. I. McNamara. oavi. Aamin~a Hh Guiit ana Asked to Be Allowed ts Besin
 HI. sentence
 at once.
CAUGHT BY TIE INSPECTORS

Muntgomery postoffice. was yesterday morning arrested and brought before United States Commissioner John A. Eimore on the charge of embedding letters which contained money or other waluahfas. Davis admitted that the charge was true, and asked that he be allowed to begin serving his sentence at once.
 This the Commissioner could not grant and his bond was Axed at $500. His case will be heard at the May term of the Federal Court
 The arrest of Davis followed com pIalnt received by postal inspector Fred E Ashton. from Father J.f l. McNam- ara. of s. Joseph's School located ebcut six miles from the city on the NJ A1ei9a Road Father McNamara re- ported to the inspectors that he had asking why he had not acknowledged the receipt of certain moneys sent him far fhe use In his school. This report was made tc the Inspectors about six weeks AMo.
 Sinee the report inspectors Kline and Ashton have been busy on the case, but UP until yastarday had not spotted their naan sufficiently we'll to make an arrest The inspectors yesterday morn inGs however. saw Distributing Clerk DaEt4 extract two letters from the pile which he was placing in the boxes and tear the tops for some distance
 After locking at their contents he plaeed them h his pocket The inspec- fere isaEnediAteiy came forward and ac- ense4 him of the theft of the mall Davis admitted to them that he had the two letters and another which he had taken earlier in the day. All three he Turned over to the inspectors.
 The letters had not really been open uwn R tassr ell Al. s9rF q all three. showing that their valuable coHtents had been seen.
 At hiE hearing before the Comrnfa- aiQ1er Davis admitted the theft of the xhree letters and an addition to these taree other letters. He asked the Com AazsloaeF yR pass sentence upon him 1Mfneni&fesy that he might begin the serving ef his sentence at the Atlanta aenktenflafy ct once. This the Con.- naFqtoner had no authority to do ana SAlQ that be would have to turn tha matfeS over to the Judge of the Fed sFai Court and that sentence would r,et ne pasaed on him until inc Mav tsrrs pf the Federal Court
 The question of bond was then dis. cueeed, To decide the amount it v,s necessary to know te what extent I1a !. wia naa robbed the mails. ana Fafhe, MeNamera and Postal inspectors Ash. tnn ana Kline were sworn. Inspector ~~@teA+%AA when W M taken into custody by him vesteY,sss { morning. that the amount of vaiuabIes which was then upon his person Ir she stolen letters amounted to about
 Father MeNamara then testiasd thu, ne nad received communications ask. Ing why receipt had not been sent iu acknowledgement of moneys sent hin aniounting to about e35 to e45 in ali.
 United States District Attorney Par. sons asked Davis how much bond he could make, and the prisoner replied that his family were poor and that hs himaslF had no property in the city After consolidation . bond Of $500 was decided upon, and in default of making which Davis was sent to the county aeil.
 Poatmagtar Dimmick, in speaking oi the ease. said that Davis had been en, ploye0 by him for about six months as uAssrtputing clerk, and was just about getting on to the curves of the job.
 Thes man impressed me at the time engaged him. of having a wild streal. in him somewhere. but did not think that he would get into this sort oi
 4Ifis arrest win put the departman, into the hole for a few days. at Least uuth can break another man In to do hia work"
 SO if the public fails to get all ei their letters strictly on time, they must be patient for few days. Post master Dimmick dismissed the clerk from his employ as soon as the inspee- tors made their report.
 The ease of Davis who Is a young man lately married, was the subject oi many sympathetic expressions yester- day afternoon He has had a great deal Of trouble during the past few, weeks His wife, to whom he had been married for about year, in a temporary state of extreme nervousness tried to drown herself in ohappells pond about a week or ten days ago. and neither hih mo. their nor father who live in the western portion of the city. have been in the best of health.
 The evident desire of Davis to do the right thing after being caught, and begin serving his sentence immediate iy touched the Commissioner and the postal inspectors who had caught him On his question, District Attorney Par sona told him that it would be impos- sfbls for him to begin service of sen tenee until after the Federal grand jury had returned case against him As soon as this is done, and the May term of the Federal court convenes Davis will be sentenced.
 Tine prisoner showed no desire te make his bond of $500 and will in all probability remain in the county jail until May.
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