#mail robbery

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"MAIL IS STOLEN AT GUN'S POINT ON LONELY ROAD," Toronto Star. September 22, 1933. Page 1. ---- Robber Makes Trenton Carrier Hand Over Registered Letters ---- EARLY IN MORNING ---- Man Asked Messenger Carrying Bags From Junction to Give Him Lift ---- Trenton, Sept. 22. - At the point of a gun Harold Clarke, Trenton mail- carrier, was held up on the deserted Wooler highway, north of Trenton, at 4 o'clock this morning and forced to hand the Montreal to Trenton registered mail to an unidentified robber. who, gathering up the loot, escaped across the fields. The value of the stolen mail has not yet been learned.

Every morning about four o'clock Clarke meets the Montreal to Toronto C.N.R. train No. 19 at Trenton Junction, two miles north of Trenton.

This morning he got the mail as usual, and drove away.

About 500 yards from the station he was hailed by a man who asked him for a ride. When Clarke stopped the man attempted to climb into the back of the truck, but Clarke objected and invited him to sit beside him. The man agreed and Clarke drove on.

Half a mile farther on, where the Wooler road turns north and west from the road leading into Trenton, the man produced a gun and ordered Clarke to drive up the side road. The latter, being unarmed, did as ordered.

"Do as I say and you won't get hurt," said the gunman.

A little farther along the lonely road, the robber ordered Clarke to stop and turn out the lights of the car.

He obeyed and was then ordered to point out the registered mail. "I don't know one bag from the other," Clarke replied.

Slit Bags With Knife Climbing into the rear of the truck, the man started to rip open all the bags with a knife. In the Hillier and the Wellington bags, he found nothing but the third bag he opened was the Montreal-to-Trenton bag containing registered mail numbered 441, 6,258, 10,594, 10,589 and 459.

Gathering up his booty, the man jumped from the truck and ran across the fields to where he had a car waiting, Clarke said. Immediately Clarke drove back to the station and notified the police by telephone. Within five minutes, police were on the scene, but despite an all-night search of the countryside they failed to find any trace of the robber.

The man is described as being young and about five feet eight inches tall. He wore a brown overcoat with a fedora hat pulled down over his eyes.

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The story of the Plymouth mail robbery.

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The story of the Plymouth mail robbery.

Phinazee, John E. and Weaver, Larry G. Moments in Time: True Stories of the United States Postal Inspectors, 2003. The authors were Postal Inspectors in the Atlanta area. Rayner, Richard, Drake’s Fortune. A fraud case set in the 1920s and ’30s. Rice, Robert, The Nature of Midnight (Forge Publishing), 2003. Novel of an Internal Affairs Inspector on a murder case in Montana, in a story related to the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania. Richards, Clay, Death of an Angel, 1890s. A novel about a Post Office Inspector investigating a mail bomb in New York. Richards, Clay, Who Steals My Name, 1965. Rosenfeld, Arthur, Diamond Eye (Forge Publishing), 2001. A Postal Inspector solves a child pornography case in Los Angeles. Stice, James Lincoln, Free Enterprise, 1945. The author, who was a Postal Inspector, wrote this collection of cases that were originally published in a local newspaper. Scarce but interesting accounts of Inspectors’ experience in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, and other areas from the 1890s to early 1900s. Sturholm, Larry and Howard, John, All for Nothing: The True Story of the Last Great American Train Robbery, 1976. The story of the DeAutremont brothers’ robbery. Tidyman, Ernest, Big Bucks, 1982. The story of the Plymouth mail robbery. Van Cise, P.S. Fighting the Underworld, 1936. The Bunco case, as written by a Denver District Attorney. Warren Commission Report: The Assassination of President Kennedy. The testimony and details of Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes’ involvement in the investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the interview he conducted with him minutes before Oswald was shot to death by Jack Ruby.