Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-office DepartmentH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1856 - 432 pagina's Postgeschichte ; Paketpost ; Briefpost ; Postbetrieb ; Amerika. |
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Pagina xv
... Package detained - Bar - room Scene - Ramifications of the Law- First Citizens - Rascally Enemies - Lawyer's Office - Gratuitous Backing - Telegraphing - U . S. Marshal arrives - The Charge-- The Fatal Quarter - Enemies ' Triumph - The ...
... Package detained - Bar - room Scene - Ramifications of the Law- First Citizens - Rascally Enemies - Lawyer's Office - Gratuitous Backing - Telegraphing - U . S. Marshal arrives - The Charge-- The Fatal Quarter - Enemies ' Triumph - The ...
Pagina xvi
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 28
... packages , abstracting their material contents , and , as it afterwards appeared , committing the letters to the flames . " Dead men tell no tales . " Neither do burnt letters . The results of this system of robbery , as regarded those ...
... packages , abstracting their material contents , and , as it afterwards appeared , committing the letters to the flames . " Dead men tell no tales . " Neither do burnt letters . The results of this system of robbery , as regarded those ...
Pagina 36
... packages were received only once or twice a week , while they had been sent daily , according to the records of the Boston post - office . After passing over the entire route several times incog . , and , taking as minute a view of the ...
... packages were received only once or twice a week , while they had been sent daily , according to the records of the Boston post - office . After passing over the entire route several times incog . , and , taking as minute a view of the ...
Pagina 37
... packages should have passed . The most decided mark of identity which was furnished me , was a brown overcoat , cut something after the Quaker style , which my informant remembered to have been worn by the stranger for whose ...
... packages should have passed . The most decided mark of identity which was furnished me , was a brown overcoat , cut something after the Quaker style , which my informant remembered to have been worn by the stranger for whose ...
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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 - 1855 |
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 companion course crime Dead Letter Office decoy depredations directed dollars door duty evidence examination fact feel Fort Covington furnished 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 person post master Post-Office Department present Quaker question railroad received remarked replied request returned rifled road robberies Robert Marshall route secure seemed sent soon Special Agent Squire supposed suspected suspicion taken thing thought tion took town truth turned village wafers wish York York post young