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Description: Alexandria, Va. Page 12
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Washington Post April 8, 1912 Alexandria, Va. Page 12
ACCUSED OF RIFLING MAIL
Alexandria Postoffice Employe Is Arrested by Inspectors.
Clerk Harry L. Wheatley Denies the Charge That He Took $8 From Decoy Letter.
Washington Post Bureau,
706 King Street,
Alexandria, Va.
Charged with abstracting eight $1 bills from a decoy letter, Harry L. WHEATLEY, a clerk in the Alexandria postoffice, was placed under arrest by Postoffice Inspectors MOSBY and ROBINSON early yesterday afternoon just as he left the building and had started toward his home after having assorted the mails up to the hour that he was relieved.
The inspectors, it is said, took $9.25 from WHEATLEY. They returned $l.25, but retained eight of the bills found in his possession. The officers then accompanied him to police headquarters, where arrangements were made for his release on bond this morning. He will be given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner R. P. W. GARNETT Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.
WHEATLEY denies the charge, and says he can explain the matter fully when the proper time comes. The decoy letter, it is said, was mailed in Richmond and addressed to a supposititious person at Atlantic City and purposely sidetracked at Alexandria where, it is reported on the outside, there have been several losses recently exciting the suspicions of Postmaster J. A. EGGBORN and the inspectors. The arrest of WHEATLEY on the sidewalk in front of the office leads to the belief that the inspectors were secreted in the building and were watching those on duty at the time the letter is alleged to have been rifled.
WHEATLEY is about 30 years old and is married. He has been employed in the local postoffice about seven years, and has borne an excellent reputation.
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Democrats Meet Tonight.
Chairman Charles BENDHEIM, of the city democratic committee, has called a meeting of that body at 8 o'clock this evening, at the Hotel Rammel. Final arrangements for the primary to be held April 23, including the amount of the assessment against each of the candidates for mayor and city council, will be determined. It is expected that the committee will select the judges and clerks of election for each of the four voting precincts.
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Car Victim Is Buried.
Funeral Services for James FINNELL, who was struck and killed by an electric car near Union Station, west of this city, Friday afternoon, were held at his home, 227 North West street, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. John Lee ALLISON, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial was in Bethel Cemetery.
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Special Session of Court.
Judge Thomas W. HARRISON, of Winchester, Va., will preside at a special session of the circuit court for this city today, when the suit of Sinclair vs. Fairfax & Co. will be heard.