The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-03-08
PARIS POST0FMCE LOOT
FOUND IN LOUISVILLE
Finding of Mail Sack Gives New
Twist To Paris Postoffice
Robbery.

me discovery in Louisville. Sat-
urday night, of a mail sack contain
ing various articles stolen from tha
Paris postoffice Thursday morning bv
yesgmen who blew the safe with dy-
Mantle and escaped with a large
amount OF valuable booty gave a new
twist to the affair. The Louisville
Herald Sunday carries the following
story:
THAT yeggmen who blew omen the
vaults of the Paris postoffice last
thursday came to Louisville with
their loot, estimated at betwee n
$4,000 and $4,000 and divided il
here was indicated by a discarded
mall sack and contents found Friday
night in vacant lot behind some
ash barrels adjoining the negro Cal
vary Baptist Church. on Fifth street.
near York.
'Two-cent "postage-due'' stamps
and a bundle of private papers be-
longing to VIM. Cooper, assistant
postmaster of Paris, were among the
is not yet known.
The sack was found by William
Prather, janitor of the church, when
he came to prepare the building for
the mornings services. He at once
notified the police. Patrolman Ellis
H. Thornsberry and Louis Dierkin,
OF the Sixth District, brought the
sack in and turned it over to the pos
tai authorities. Chas. S. Raidy, SUI
perintendent of mails, and w. f.
Greenaway, postoffice inspector, at
once checked over the contents.
I'm addition to the postage due
stamps which were useless to the
robbers, the sack was stuffed with
the torn off margins of thousands of
dollars worth of postage stamps, in
dicating that the robbers were pro-
fessionals and probably specialists at
robbipg postoffices, according to Mr..
Greenaway. The margins of all
stamps are numbered and if acct
dentally left on when stamping let
tiers, might enable inspectors to trace
the movements of the robbers, he
said. The only valuable papers
found were those belonging to Mr..
Cooper, consisting of certificates for
oil and various other stocks.
"A number of torn and empty en-
velopes, some registered, were alss
in the sack or dropped near the place
it was found. Some of them were ad
dressed to financial institutions.
Zone of the envelopes was regis
tered letter No. 1897, which had
been opened and left on the ground
by the robbers. 1t was addressed to
S. e. Bedford, president of the PEG
ples-Deposit Bank at Paris, KY. The
envelope had contained check for
$4,000 sent the bank by Ira D.
Thompson, president of the Thomp-
SON. Humble Lumber Co., of Somerset.
KY. Mr.. Bedford said. AS soon as
the news of the postoffice robbery
reached Somerset, he said, Mr..
Thompson stopped payment on the
check. and, of course, suffered no
loss.
while Louisville detectives and
federal authorities took up a search
here for the bandits, it was believed
that they had long since left the
city, probably for some Northern
city. No other pouch from the Paris
office has been found at any point
Hope was held that the private pc
pers found might prove of considera-
BILE value, thus returning part OF
the loss to the losers.
Much of the property taken, it is
understood, belonged to Walter
Payne, postmaster; Assistant Cooper
and William Clark, clerk.
"An inspector working out of the
Cincinnati. Office under which all
Kentucky postoffice inspectors are as
signed is in charge of the case, Mr.
Greenaway said, his own connection
with it being merely the local emu
which developed last night.
Before the sack was found MI.
Greenaway was notified from Lex
ington that the robbers might be
headed toward Louisville, as an
abandoned automobile found in the
Bluegrass citye contained evidence
that il had been used by at least two
men involved in the robbery.
various theories were advanced
Al to the manner in which the post
Office bandits made their getaway
from Louisville after dividing the
spoils. The sack containing their
loot, now in possession of the post
office inspector here, was an ordl-
nary canvas sack. evidently snatch
ed up at random, into which the
men stuffed war savings stamps
packages of registered mail, money
stamps and other valuables, a1te.
they dynamited two large safes ana
two small ones in the Paris ONCE
MIR. Greenaway said"
Inspector Beck, Of Lexington, VINO
has had charge of the investigator.
of the theft, has completed his wors,
Mr.. Beck states that the actual iosa
has been tabulated and is much low
or than as first reported. 1.-The yeSS-