Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — CROOKED POSTMASTERS. [ARTICLE]

CROOKED POSTMASTERS.

Two Men Arrested for Getting the Best of the Government. Denver dispatch: PostoiTice Inspector W. W. Patterson, in charge ot the Rocky Mountain district, has succeeded in running down two*derelict postmasters. J. J. Thurman, late of Genoa, lowa, left that town nearly one month ago without stating to his wife and three children or his deputy where he was going. An investigation of his accounts showed a shortage of 82,000 in government funds. He came to Denver two weeks ago, and when arrested made a full confession. The other postmaster is Horace Greeley Stewart, alias Ed Dunham, who while in charge of the mails at Dallas, Colo., appropriated $l,lOO belonging to the money order fund and fled. He was traced all over Nevada and the territories, until finally he was located in Eureka, a small Utah mining camp some distance from a railroad, whore he was arrested on. Saturday. Stewart is thirty-one years of age, the son of Hiram Stewart well known throughout Kansas. He was educated at the Law University at Ann Arbor, and is a fluent talker and capable lawyer. Michaei. Morgan, a merchant of Kansas City, fell down-stairs in the absence of his family, and when his wife returned she found his corpse at the foot of the stairway.