Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1920 — MAIL LOOT TOTALS [ARTICLE]

MAIL LOOT TOTALS

Pouch Stolen From Tr«l" MW Cow ell Bluffs Contained SBOO,OOO In . * Government Bonde. J Omaha, Neb., Nov. 18.—One million dollars Is the lowest estimate placed by newspapers on the looting of the car. The highest estimate is ww, 000, the figure givmi by a Council Bluffs paper and admitted by K JPatterson, Council Bluffs superintendent of mails, to be pretty dose to the amount stolen. The paper dutlarM that amount of insurance was carried on the ten registered pouchesstotoh. and adds that the actual theft was probably to excess of toe Postmaster Hughes of Council BMP is said by investigators tohave fled the report that the pouch had contained $800,009 in kaß and that the maximum figure ,<w 000,000 is about toe correct figure.