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Excerpt from Guarding the Mails, or the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department: Being a Record of Mail Robberies and Their Detection; Embracing Sketches of Wonderful Exploits of Special Agents in the Detection, Pursuit, and Capture of Depredators Upon the Mails, With a Complete Description of the Many Means and Complicated Contrivanc
Starting in Life othohinton. Removing the fire-board from before the grate, he discovered pieces of letters, post-bills, strings, sealing-wax, and paper partly burned. Jake, I'm tired and sleepy; I believe I will get up on top, under the can The astonishment of the robber was equalled only by his chagrin. The key is gone, replied Mike, the porter. Unaccustomed to so much walking, he decided to buy a horse. In the gathering gloom only the nearest objects were visible. Guided by the splashing in the water, he turned the skifi' down stream, and in a few seconds came upon the half-drowned man. No yer don't, no yer don't, Meester Heenton. Yer puts yer fut een eet dis time. Did you know that he was under arrest for robbing the mails? Asked The negro gradually recalled the circumstances. The dealer had no suspicion whatever of the identity of the proposed customer. Thelonelyride. After a long skirmish, the old lady admitted that for several months her daughter had held for Ben two one hundred dollar bills The late mail-rider did not wait for a second warning, but, mounting a ?eet steed, plunged into the forest.
No mail-robber ever gets away from me. Now, my boy, you have been robbing the mails.
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Starting in Life othohinton. Removing the fire-board from before the grate, he discovered pieces of letters, post-bills, strings, sealing-wax, and paper partly burned. Jake, I'm tired and sleepy; I believe I will get up on top, under the can The astonishment of the robber was equalled only by his chagrin. The key is gone, replied Mike, the porter. Unaccustomed to so much walking, he decided to buy a horse. In the gathering gloom only the nearest objects were visible. Guided by the splashing in the water, he turned the skifi' down stream, and in a few seconds came upon the half-drowned man. No yer don't, no yer don't, Meester Heenton. Yer puts yer fut een eet dis time. Did you know that he was under arrest for robbing the mails? Asked The negro gradually recalled the circumstances. The dealer had no suspicion whatever of the identity of the proposed customer. Thelonelyride. After a long skirmish, the old lady admitted that for several months her daughter had held for Ben two one hundred dollar bills The late mail-rider did not wait for a second warning, but, mounting a ?eet steed, plunged into the forest.
No mail-robber ever gets away from me. Now, my boy, you have been robbing the mails.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - P. H. Woodward
Hardback
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780484235815
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 562
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