STOLEN GOODS FOUND

Fur Coats and Other Articles Recovered in Basement of Tenement House in Voorheesville

In the Albany county jail awaiting the action of the grand jury is Francisco Muria of Voorheesville. Muria was arrested on Saturday by patrolmen of the Delaware and Hudson police department on charge of receiving stolen property.

In the basement of a tenement house at Voorheesville owned by Mrs. Flansburg and occupied in part by Muria, the detectives found fur coats and other articles. The coats were identified by Earl Curtis, a rural free delivery carrier of Voorheesville; Dexter Padock of Delmar, and Mrs. Alexander of Delanson as their property. The search was made in an effort to find property stolen from stations and places along the Susquehanna division.

Muria was arraigned Monday before Judge Ferguson at Voorheesville, plead not guilty, and in default of bail was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury.

Muria’s arrest followed those of Nico Happavigno and Antonio Departero on Dec. 3. The two are believed to be the men who during the past month robbed the Delaware and Hudson stations at Delmar, Slingerlands, Delanson and other places; and also the business places of C. V. Beebe and Charles Loucks in Altamont last week. Both are in the county jail awaiting the action of the grand jury.

The Delaware and Hudson police and the residents of the towns along the Susquehanna division are determined to put a stop to the petty thievery of which they have been victims for several months.

GOOD POSITIONS READY

There will be 175 exempt jobs for Secretary of State-elect Francis M. Hugo to fill for Albany county and as many for each county of the state as there are election districts in the county. The new secretary of state himself brought this information to Albany last week. The places are in connection with the state census which the law requires shall be taken every ten years and which in the ordinary course of events will be taken next year, during the months of April, May and June. The new secretary admitted that there were not very large salaries attached to the job. Each enumerator will be paid two dollars a day, a cent for each name he takes. In addition to one enumerator for each election district there will be supervisors of census appointed, one or more for each county.

In connection with the enumeration Mr. Hugo has informally expressed the opinion that the length of the coming constitutional convention would be materially affected by the time within which the results of the enumeration would become known. He said that one of the duties of the convention would be to make a new legislative apportionment which would be based upon the enumeration to be taken next summer. He thought that because of this fact the convention might be carried well into the fall and that probably the apportionment would be the last thing which the convention would determine.

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