: Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by Holbrook James - Postal service United States

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No "Ear-Biters" employed--The Commission--A whole School robbed--Value of a "quarter"--Embargo on Trunks--Unjust Suspicion--The dying Mother--Fidelity of Post Masters--A venerable pair of Officials--President Pierce assists--A clue to the Robberies--The Quaker Coat--An insane Traveler--The Decoy Letters--Off the Road--The dancing Horse--The Decoy missing--An official Visit by night--Finding the marked Bills--The Confession--The Arrest Page 25

A competent Assistant--Yielding to Temptation--An easy Post Master--Whispers of Complaint--Assistant embarrassed--Application to his Uncle--The Refusal--Value of a kind Word--Resort to Depredations--Evidences of Guilt--Decoy Letter taken--The Bowling Saloon--The Agent worsted--The Restaurant--Bother of the Credit System--The fatal Bank-Note--Keen Letter to the Agent--The Arrest--The next Meeting 52

High Crimes in low Places--Honest Baggage-masters--Suspicious Circumstances--Watching the Suspected--Shunning the Dust--Honesty Triumphant--An Episode--Unexpected Confession--The Night Clerks--Conformity to Circumstances--Pat the Porter--Absents himself--Physician consulted--The Dead Child--Hunting Excursions--"No Go"--Pat explains his Absence--His Discharge--The Grave-stones--Stolen Money appears--The Jolly Undertakers--Pat at the Grave--More Hunting--Firing a Salute--Removing the Deposits--Crossing the Ferry--Scene at the Post-Office--Trip to Brooklyn--Recovery of Money--Escape--Encounter with a Policeman--Searching a Steamer--Waking the wrong Passenger--Accomplices detained--Luxuries cut off--False Imprisonment Suit--Michael on the Stand--Case dismissed 95

An infected District--A "fast" Route Agent--Heavy Bank Losses--Amateur Experiments--Dangerous Interference--A Moral Lecture--The Process discovered--An unwelcome Stranger--Midnight Watching--Monopoly of a Car--Detected in the Act--The Robber searched--His Committal--A supposed Accomplice--The Case explained--Honesty again triumphant--Drafts and Letters--A long Sentence--Public Sympathy--A Christian Wife--Prison Scenes--Faithful to the last--An interesting Letter 122

Safety of the Mails--Confidence shaken--About Mail Locks--Importance of Seals--City and Country--Meeting the Suspected--Test of Honesty--Value of a String--A dreary Ride--Harmless Stragglers--A cautious Official--Package missing--An early Customer--Newspaper Dodge--Plain Talk--A Call to Breakfast--Innocence and Crime--Suspicion Confirmed--The big Wafers--Finding the String--The Examination--Escape to Canada--A true Woman--The Re-arrest--Letter of Consolation--The Wife in Prison--Boring Out--Surprise of the Jailor--Killing a Horse 136

Startling Complaints--Character against Suspicion--The two Clerks--Exchanging Notes--The Faro Bank--Tracing a Bill--An official Call--False Explanation--Flight of the Guilty--The Fatal Drug--The Suicide--Sufferings of the Innocent--The Moral 152

A NIGHT IN A POST-OFFICE.

Midnight Mails--Suspected Clerk--A trying Position--Limited View--A "crack" Agent--Sneezing--"Counter Irritation"--The Night Bell--Fruitless Speculations--Insect Orchestra--Picolo introduced--Snoring--Harmless Accident--The Boot-black--A tenanted Boot--The Exit 165

Throwing off the Cars--Fiendish Recklessness--The Boot-Tracks--A Scamp among the Printers--Obstruction removed--A Ruse--The Boots secured--"Big Jobs"--The Trial--Unreliable Witness--A Life-Sentence 172

STOPPING A POST-OFFICE.

The Unpaid Draft--The Forged Order--A Reliable Witness--Giving up the Mail Key--A Lady Assistant--Post-Office Records--The official Envelope--Return of the Post Master--The Interview--Embarrassment of Guilt--Duplicate Circular--Justice secured 181

Indian Depredations--The model Mail Contractor--Rifles and Revolvers--Importance of a Scalp--Indian Chief reconnoitering--Saving dead Bodies--Death of a Warrior--The Charge--A proud Trophy--Sunset on the Prairie--Animal Life--A solitary Hunt--The Buffalo Chase--Desperate Encounter with an Indian--Ingenious Signal--Returning to Camp--Minute Guns--A welcome Return 192

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