Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — Chesterton Mail Clerk Under o Charge of Rifling Mail. [ARTICLE]

Chesterton Mail Clerk Under o Charge of Rifling Mail.

B. S. Wise, of Chesterton, a railway mail clerk on the Lake Shore road, was arrested in Chicago Monday by postal authorities and taken to Cleveland to answer the charge of rifling the mails. The inspectors charge Wise with robbing the mails for the past ten years. A decoy package that had been sent over the railroads in the north part of thastate for several months, is said to nave been found in Wise’s possession. While Wise was in the custody of the officials in Chicago, his wife, at her home in Chesterton, was worryng about his absence. Evter since last Wednesday she had awaited his return, The first inkling\she had of his trouble was when a watchman at the railroad crossing in Chesterton handed her a paper with the account of his arrest. sbe will not believe her husband guilty.