The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
MAILED in TOPEKA.
Police Insist That Plat Package New
er Left City,

The solution of the Platt murder
mystery is as far off as ever, notwith-
standing the mysterious package re-
cefved by the coroner. The pOStoffice
people and police here are inclined to
think that the mysterious package
containing part of the coins owned
by Platt received in the mail Tues
day afternoon by Coroner Keith, was
mailed in Topeka. They are also of
the opinion that the envelope used as
a wrapper for the pocketbook had
been mailed to DR.. Keith previous to
the murder and afterwards taken
from the waste can back of the doc
| tors office or elsewhere and reTnailed
to him as a wrapper for the parcel.
DR.. Keith, however, does not think
that he ever received the envelope
previous to Tuesday afternoon.
Those sharing the former theory
base their idea largely on the fact that
the envelope was dated February 1,
while the murder did not occur until
February p. At the Topeka postofftce
it is said that it would be possible
in the rush of the mail for the parcel
to pass though the office unnoticed.
Assistant Postmaster Andrew NJ. Full
Ter, says that it would come under
third class mail and the Topeka post
mark is not used on the cancellation
of this class of matter. This is the
case with the envelope around the
package. The postmark is too faint
to be deciphered. but the first letter
in the name of the town is IS.
If the pocketbook had been mailed
from any town the first letter of
which begins with 81, from the date
February t. the postmaster at that
place had forgotten to change the
date of his cancelling stamp.
AS to the once received envelope
theory, DR.. Keith says that he does
not recognize the writing on the adj
n al l.
veIope apparently had not been open
ed in the way he opens his. However,
he does say that he has had some cor
respondence from Soldier. near where
he owns a farm, and that he has been
in the habit of throwing his old en-
velopes in a waste can on an upstairs
porch back of his office. This would
be of comparative easy access for any
one desiring to take one OF the doc
This theory in the minds of the
postoffice people is strengthened by
the fact that the words County Cor
oner' are written in a different hand
from that of the doctors name and
address, as if either the writer was
trying to disguise his writing or had
persuaded some one else to add those
| words.
ed here said Assistant Postmaster
Fuller this afternoon. I'm the thous-
ands of packages that pass through
the office and are rushed to the city
distributing table and from there to
the carriers bags, it would not need
to attract much attention.
at would come under third class
matter and the cancellation for that
mail does not show Topeka post
mark. The stamp is simply can
celled.
However, I do not say it was
mailed here None of my clerks re-
member positively they handled it, al
though they might have
Chief Jenkins says he is positive
that the package was mailed in To-
peka.
From other places the names of
which begin with So comes the word
that postmasters had changed the
| date on the cancellor from February
| to March before the first mail on
March l.