Wednesday morning some tramps came…
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Postmaster Millerperson
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a.k.a. Miller
Sloanperson
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chunk 1928 · paragraph 0
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