The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-15
AL MOREHOUSE
in FEDERAL net
Kenosha Soldier Charged
With Rifling Mail at
Harvard, Ill.
ADMITS HIS GUILT
Is Taken at Woodstock, ILL.,, At
ter Attempt to Cash Check
Taken From Letter.

Albert Morehouse, aged p years,
widely known in Kenosha and formerly
employed in the Kenosha post office, is
held by the federal officials in Chicago
charged with rifing United States mail
He is held pending action of the fed
eral grand jury, but reports from Har
ward, ILL.,, where the crime is alleged to
have been committed, declare that
Morehouse has made complete con-
fession to the federal officials and that
he is expected to plead guilty to the
charge when arraigned. Morehouse
and Clyde Stewart, aged 81, who is said
to be a resident of Detroit, Mich, were
arrested at Woodstock, H., on last
Wednesday, but the facts in the case
were not made public until today.
Stewart is said to have also made a
full confession of his connection with
the alleged rifing of the mails.
May Also Charge Desertion.
Young Morehouse is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. R. T[orehouse of Kenosha and
he was supposed to be soldier in the
United States army. He enlisted in
the army in wartime but was found to
be under age and was forced to get out
of the service. Recently he re-enlisted
and it was said at Harvard today that
he had been at Camp Grant, near Rock
ford, Illinois.
According to the story told at Har-
ward this morning, young Morehouse
and Stewart came to Harvard from Ke-
nosha week ago today and in the
evening they went to the Harvard sta
tion where a number Of mail pouches
had been left to be picked up by the
trains. 1t is alleged in the charges
made by the government officials that
the boys waited about the station and
when a good chance presented itself
they took one of the mail pouches and
carried it to a shed which was a part
of grain elevator, where the pouch
was opened and the letters taken out.
The boys did not get package of reg
istered mail which had been part Of
the mail sent out of Harvard post office
on that night.
Sight Draft Leads to Capture.
1t is charged that the two boys had
opened lot of letters which had been
taken from the pouch and in one Of
them was found sight draft for
$272.50 which had been sent by grain
firm to a firm at Elkhorn, Wis, in set
Element of grain invoice. The two
boys left Harvard and went to Wood
stock, Ill There, according to the
charges of the federal officials. they
sought to cash this sight draft and
they were arrested and turned over to
the federal officials.
After an investigation by the federal
officials, Stewart is alleged to have con-
fessed that he had part in the rifing
of the mails. Morehouse at first denied
any connection with the theft of the
mail but later he broke down and adj
mitted his part in the crime. The two
were then taken from Woodstock to
Chicago, where they are now being held
pending action by the federal grand
jury.
Had Trouble in Local Office.
This is not the first time that More
house has been in trouble with the
federal officials. While employed in
the Kenosha post office, he was under
fire on similar charge but on account
of the fact that he was a soldier the
government dropped the charges filed
against him. At that time he severed
his relations with the Kenosha post
office.