Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-21
LOST MAIL POUCH CONTAINED s2O,O0O
 FOR THIEVES PELF
Mystery of Disappearance Has Wakened Deep
 Interest
CLIFTON IS EXCITED

The robbery of mail sack contain ing a sum of money reported at s20,- 000 has been the all-engrossing mys- tery of Clifton and Morenci since Tuesday morning Owing to the flood which put the Morenci Southern out of commission on Sunday, the carry ing of mail and passengers was COZ tracted to Cansler's hack line and on Monday night the belated A. & N. Nj. train which did not reach Clifton un- til after o'clock brought passengers and a large mail for Morenci.
 The regular Clifton run was large and the newspaper mail was very heavy, containing the Los Angeles Sunday papers, so the confusion at the depot for several minutes after the train arrived was unusual
 Tuesday morning the opening or the mail at Morenci disclosed the fact that the letter mail sack was missing and that it had contained a locked money pouch carrying funds for the regular monthly payroll Word was immediately phoned to Clifton and search instituted in the mail car and at the postohice on the suppositiOn that the sack might have been mis- laid. When no trace of 1t was found the matter was reported to Deputy O. S Marshal Franz, Sheriff Patty and Marshal Coffee. A number of theories V ere evolved and rumOrs flew thick and fast
 Marshal Coffee found the mail sack lodged on a shoal in the river below the railroad bridge and brought it to the post office. It had been slit with a knife for a length of about IS inches the money pouch was missing, but the most of the package letter ma.l
 was intact. IL now transpires that this was the only locked sack in the Morenci mail
 Subsequently two packages Of let ters, one tied and the other loose. though the string was about it were found at points above and below the railroad bridge, and a package of Los Angeles papers was recovered by SheTiff Patty above the wagon bridge. The mail clerk on the train says he recefued for the money pouch 2t Lordsburg. made up the letter mail and put the pouch into it, and locked 1t and on arrival here gave II sacks to the stage driver after putting off the Clifton nail and part or all of the papers.
 The stage driver placed his pas seneers. a lady and three children in the hack before going for the mail There were eleven sacks in all and
 he had to make two trips with the hand cart on which mail is handled on the platform He says that he took six sacks the first trip and the mail clerk says he thinks that the locked ! hav la r.r1f nd would naturally be under the others in the cart
 He further says that he did rot ! throw the other five sacks on the plat form, but waited until the driver ! came back for them. + the sack was abstracted in Clifton the opportunity i was when the driver left the first batch in the hack and returned for | the baIauce-severa minutes. The night was very darl, and the number of people about the depot unusually ! large
 i There seems to be no question that | the fact that there was only one | locked pouch was known tC whoever | took it. he or they knew what to | look for. If the other five sacks had i been piled up on top of the first batch
  have been impossible to dig it out of | the eleven unobseTved.
 The local officers are actively en- l gagged in tracing every stage of ,he ! transit from LordsDurg to Morenci ' through Clifton.
 It is said here that the fact was well known in Morenci that the money would be in that mali for the payroll { ,,- 1-,,,.11,,.os wore told the rash WOll d ! be ready for them Tuesday morning ! it's arrival being delayed by the wash out and the necessity of bringing 1t ! through Clifton.
 All those. who handled or in any way came in contact with The Mo renci mail have been thoroughly cate. : chised. elciting only the above de tails
 ! Up to the time of going to press no fresh evidence had been obtained bat it is anticipated that important de | velopmentE may be disclosed before | Monday-COpper Era.