Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Ligonier Echo
Wednesday, August 18, 1920
Latrobe Men Are Charged With Neglect
In Abandoning Mail Sack Stolen August 2 At Latrobe
Pouch Contained About $10,000
Pittsburgh, Aug. 15. Federal warrants were issued by the United States commissioner yesterday for David S. Truxal and John H. Truxal, both of Latrobe, for an alleged offense rarely prosecuted in the federal courts. The two men, it is alleged, abandoned and deserted a mail pouch at the Latrobe station of the Pennsylvania Railroad on Aug. 2. The pouch, consigned to a Pittsburgh bank depository of the First National Bank of Ligonier, contained between $5,000 and $10,000 in money and valuable papers, and it is reported to have been stolen.
The complaint was made by Post Office Inspector Lindo Brigman and was drawn up by Assistant Federal Attorney Daniel S. Horne. It is charged that the Truxals, under contract with the railway post office to care for the delivery of the mail from the Latrobe post office unlawfully "deserted and abandoned" the pouch in question. The pouch was one of five and, it is said, was left on the railroad station platform, unprotected.
The offense, the first of its kind to come to the notice of the federal authorities here in
years, is punishable by a fine of $500 and one year's imprisonment, or both.
Greensburg Review.