Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — ROBBING THE MAILS. [ARTICLE]

ROBBING THE MAILS.

Many Valuable tetters tost Between New York ■ and the West. [New York dispatch.] It can be set down as a positive fact that a thief or a gang of thieves has bean stealing systematically from the United States mails between New York City and the West during the last thrae months. Never in the history of the .Postoffice Department have so many valuable money packages and letters been ffiolen aS dur-' ing the last ftw weeks. The officers of the postoffice have been reticent about making known the extent of the losses. Whenever it’ has leaked out that a largj package was lost thosj in charge of the postoffice have kept the information from the public. Nothing has been heard of the three SS,OQC drafts-mailed by Blake Bros. & Co., of Nassau street, ' which have failed to reach their- destination in Chicago. Besides the Blake notes, other letters, containing money, checks, and drafts, mailed about the same time, are reported as having failed to reach their destination. The losses will amount to thousands of dollars. A wellknown man, connected with the Postoffice Department in Washington, says that if the losses of the last two months were known the public would be startled. “This is not all,” said the man. “You will hear of more losses of packages and letters in a short time. Thers are somo crooks at work who are reaping a rich harvest from the mail bags, but it will be a hard matter to run them down, because they do not confine their operations to one locality.”