The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-10-01
CASH SHORTAGE
IN SHIPMENT To
BANK UMSOlvEO
Postal Authorities After Nearly
Monih's Work Pail 10 rs ne.
sponslbiIlty for $1,000 Taken
from the Mails.
RECORDS CLEAN HERE
INVESTIGATION SHOWS
Money Shipped from Local Dark 10
MARROW Bank: Newspaper In.
stead Currency Found when
NARROW Opens Package.


Though posloffoc inspectors and
officials have hecn working fol
nearly month on the case. the dis
appearance of $4,000 from the regis
tered malls hctxeon the chickasha
poainffcc aud hank In MARROW
remains today an unsolscd mystery
aud no arrests In the ease have
teen made. Il WAS announced today
by officials
The missing money was a ship
mcnt from the First National bank
of Chicknsha 10 the First National
bark of NARROW. made on September
:. the shipment going south on the
firefly on the morning Of scp,cm.
bcr 2.
Investigation has established the
following facts. according 10 postal
officials The money was delivered
hy the bank messenger to the local
posiofiice on the afternoon of Sep.
tember .. TOO late to catch the after.
noon southbound train. The registry
clerk at the Chickasha office gave
the hank messenger receipt for
the shipment. 4 clerk in the Chick.
asha office receipted the rlgistry
CLERK for the package and put II In
the safe. The clerk receipting the
registry man went off duty at s
o'clock and took a receipt from the
man who remained on duty until 10
o'clock that night. This man took
receipt from the clerk who would
dispatch Che pi1slge the following
morning.
The dIspatch> clerk. on ihe morn.
ing of September 3. delivered the
package. In bag Of registered mail.
to the mail clerk on the Firefly.
taking the mail clerks receipt
II was explained that before leav-
ing this office. as is the regular rou-
tine, the package was locked in a
bag. The railway mail clerk has a
key to that bag. unlocking 1t and
checking the packages before giving
the postofflce dispatching clerk a
receipt
Tho money was wanted in NARROW
for tho payment of some current
expenses on paving It was wanted
on the afternoon Of September 2,
the MARROW bank had two
messengers at the postoffice when
the bag containing the package was
delivered at the NARROW office. 1t
was further explained that the Mar
low office closes its windows upon
the receipt of mail until the mail is
distributed in the boxes. The inves
tigation shows that the bank mes.
sengers shouted from the lobby of
the office to the clerks asking if the
package Of money had arrived. They
were told that it had and waited in
the lobby until the windows were
opened.
The bank messengers then re-
ceived the package and receipted the
NARROW postoffice for it, left the
postoffice together and went to the
bank, only short distance away
The postoffice officials in MARROW in.
formed the investigators that it could
not have heen more than minute
and a half to two minutes when the
bank called up with the information
that there was no money in the
paskage, but that the bag contained
part Of a newspaper, folded.
All the clerks in the Chckasha
postoffice, who, in the regular rou
tine of work handled the package,
have receipts from the clerks to
whom they turned the package, but
the NARROW postoffice, through the
prompt reporting of the shortage by
the bank, caught the discrepancy be-
fore the good order receipt was
mailed, as usual to the railway mail
clerk. The NARROW postoffice, how
ever, holds the bank messengers re-
ceipt for the package.
Thus far the shortage has proved
to be one of the most battling cases
the local postoffice has had to deal
with, according to postal officials.