Wednesday morning some tramps came…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

Wednesday morning some tramps came into the postoffice and told Postmaster Miller that there was some mail on the ground down near the coal pile. Miller went down and dis- covered the remains of nine registered letters, which he had put in the bag the night before, and the contents of some of them, including a watch and couple of checks. Miller says he made up the mail as usual the night before, put the registered mail in the pouch and took it over to the depot. The night operator, Sloan, says the pouch lay outside the counter on the office floor all night and that he put it on the train in the morning, and the route agent tele- graphed back that the pouch was received all right. How the letters got out of the bag is at