Giant Mail Theft Plot Foiled by Post Office Inspector
New York May 20 A vast registered mail theft scheme at the city hall postoffice was stopped by a post office inspector who pretended to join the plot. Seven men were arrested, six of them current or former post office workers. Morris Steinberg a 19 year old clerk led the July Liberty bond theft and was aided by Eduard Fogel in a plan to steal bonds worth millions. The capture involved sixteen inspectors infiltrating the group. The scheme targeted daily securities shipments from Wall Street.
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Post Office
Doran
Broadfs
Wall Street Financial Zone
Aspector Doran
Morris Steinberg
Registry Department
Steinberg
Tse
Federal Reserve Bank
Eduard Fogel
Fogel
Ee and Foret
Seven held in mail robbery gang swoop
Installed a dictograph and invited the suspects to visit. The gang, six other men plus a beard, discussed mail robbing as inspectors recorded in an adjoining room. The seven prisoners faced U S Commissioner Hitchcock with bail set from 5000 to 25000 dollars.
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Beard
United States
Hitchcock
Steinberg, Fogel
Abraham Goldsmith
Gustav Galles
Irving Weinstein
Gustav Feldman
Harry Shapiro
Drug crazed man captured at home of actress
Deputy Sheriffs answered a midnight call to Bebe Daniels residence in Los Angeles. Charles Caprice, from San Francisco, surrendered without resistance and said he came to kill the actress under orders of a narcotics peddler. He was taken to the psychopathic ward for mental evaluation.
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Los Angeles
Bebe Daniels
Charles Caprice
Caprice
San Francisco
Brabant to Wed Yolanda
The engagement of Prince Leopold Duke of Brabant heir to the Beretin throne to Princess Yolanda daughter of the King and Queen of Italy will be officially proclaimed during the Italian sovereigns visit to Brussels. The engagement has been reported for a year or more. A Chicago landlord is building a 33 flat building with a perambulator stall with lock and key for each tenant.
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Yolanda
Brussels
Leopold
Duk of
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Wea
Chicago
Halts Conviction Of 300 Bank Robber
Chicago May 20 The jury in the second trial of William Dalton boy bank clerk who stole 772000 worth of Liberty bonds was discharged after failing to agree the vote stood 11 to 1 for conviction the foreman said Dalton said I guess its all right but they dont seem to want to give me another chance The case drew nation wide attention for the amount and because of a prior remark by Judge Landis about bank officials contributing to robberies by paying clerks small salaries Dalton now holds a different job per a family friend
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Chicago
William Dalton
Dalton
Kenesaw M. Landis
Man Saves Wife In Nick of Time
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