Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — LOCKED MAIL POUCH STOLEN. [ARTICLE]

LOCKED MAIL POUCH STOLEN.

Taken From Transfer Wagon at the Peru Railway Station. ; Peru, Ind., Jan. 11.—A locked pouch containing letters from eastern points was stolen last night at the union railway station. Two trains, Wabash No. 5, and Lake Erie and Western No. 25, arrive five minutes apart and the pouches from the Wabash train were left in the transfer wagon while the messenger, Henry Koontz, attended to the mail on the other train. When the postoffice was reached Koontz discovered that the first-class mail pouch from the Wabash train had been stolen.

A tall, slender stranger, who said he was a railroad detective, was seen loitering about the station at train time for several nights, and last night assisted Koontz in transferring the mail. As he has not been seen since the departure of the two trains last night, he is under suspicion. ,