Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-office DepartmentH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1855 - 432 pagina's |
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Pagina xix
... 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 CHAPTER II . Page 25 A ...
... 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 CHAPTER II . Page 25 A ...
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... Robbers routed - A " Fine Young English Gentleman " -The right stuff CHAPTER XVI . The tender Passion - Barnum's Museum - Little Eva - The Boys in a Box - The Bracelet - Love in an Omnibus - Losses ex- plained 222 . * 226 CHAPTER XVII ...
... Robbers routed - A " Fine Young English Gentleman " -The right stuff CHAPTER XVI . The tender Passion - Barnum's Museum - Little Eva - The Boys in a Box - The Bracelet - Love in an Omnibus - Losses ex- plained 222 . * 226 CHAPTER XVII ...
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... robberies . With this hope , I inquired privately of several merchants in the place , whether they had recently taken any such bills , and learned from one of them that , about two weeks before , at the time of the Exhibition , several ...
... robberies . With this hope , I inquired privately of several merchants in the place , whether they had recently taken any such bills , and learned from one of them that , about two weeks before , at the time of the Exhibition , several ...
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... his works in ruin . “ Trifles light as air ” harden into " confirmation strong as words of Holy Writ . " Assuming that the aforesaid coat , if it had any connection with THE INSANE TRAVELER . 39 the author of the robberies.
... his works in ruin . “ Trifles light as air ” harden into " confirmation strong as words of Holy Writ . " Assuming that the aforesaid coat , if it had any connection with THE INSANE TRAVELER . 39 the author of the robberies.
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... robberies , was probably manufactured at the only tailoring establishment in the place , I happened in there on Monday morning , and inquired of the presiding genius his price for a respectable overcoat , intending in some roundabout ...
... robberies , was probably manufactured at the only tailoring establishment in the place , I happened in there on Monday morning , and inquired of the presiding genius his price for a respectable overcoat , intending in some roundabout ...
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Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent ... James Holbrook Volledige weergave - 1855 |
Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent ... James Holbrook Volledige weergave - 1856 |
Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent ... James Holbrook Volledige weergave - 1888 |
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addressed afterwards appeared appointed arrest arrived ascertained baggage-master bank bank-notes bills Blake Boston Brooklyn called Carleton character charge circumstances clerk course crime Dead Letter Office decoy depredations direction dollars door driver duty evidence examination fact feel Fort Covington gentleman guilty hand Harrowfork honest honor horse Hubbardston innocent inquired investigation Joab John Harmon Jolliet knew landlord letter box look mail carrier Marshal ment miles mind molasses morning neighboring never night obtained occasion Ogdensburg once package paper party passed passengers person post master Post-Office Department present Quaker question railroad received remarked replied request returned rifled road robberies Robert Marshall route seemed sent soon Special Agent Squire supposed suspected suspicion taken thing thought tion took town truth turned village wafers wish York York post young
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Pagina 293 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Pagina 429 - ... shall have in his possession any such mail lock or key with the intent unlawfully or improperly to use, sell, or otherwise dispose of the same, or to cause the same to be unlawfully or improperly used, sold, or otherwise disposed of; or...
Pagina 351 - The defendant requested the Court to charge the jury as follows :— 1. That the...
Pagina 423 - ... of not less than one hundred dollars, nor exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Pagina 420 - If any person shall, knowingly and wilfully, obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction, for every such offence, pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars...
Pagina 428 - ... be for the use of the informer, and the other half for the use of the State Board of Health.
Pagina 430 - Department; and any person who shall violate this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.
Pagina 425 - And if any other person shall open any mail or packet of newspapers, or shall embezzle or destroy the same, not being directed to such person, or not being authorized to receive or open the same, such offender shall, on the conviction thereof, pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence.
Pagina 429 - ... shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary for...
Pagina 423 - General, or any person in whom his powers are vested, in a conveyance of any mail, letter, packet, or newspaper, or pamphlet, or shall draw or break any staple, or loosen any part of any lock, chain, or strap, attached to, or belonging to any such valise, portmanteau or bag, with an intent...