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The Minneapolis Journal, October 1, 1902, p. 9

FINE TOUCH, INDEED.

Postal Clerk's Nerves Tell Them of Inclosures in Letters.

Delicacy of touch that is acquired by clerks in the mailing division of the postpffices is shown by the government's exhibit made in a recent case before the federal court involving the Minneapolis office. Thirty-nine letters were found by the inspectors detained from the mails in a rolled up apron at the bottom of a clothes locker used by clerks. The accuracy of the person who held out these letters was shown after they were opened either by the senders or the addressees at their destination.

Only four letters out of thirty-nine contained no inclosures; four of them held inclosed letters, four held slips of paper and five of them newspaper clippings. To the touch, nothing of the nature of the inclosure was revealed, it is seen, although in the pile $41 was found in cash, $19 in money orders, $27 in checks, $60 in drafts.

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