Madigan v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Shortly after 1 o’clock a. m. August 14,1926, the west-hound mail train on the Union Pacific Railway stopped at the coal chute at Hanna, Wyo., and was there boarded by two men who concealed themselves in the storage mail ear for *181a time. The door to that car was not locked. Soon thereafter they entered the ear immediately in front, in which Albert J. Miller, who was in charge of the train and in custody of all the mail carried, and Jack W. Madigan, a mail clerk who handled the registered mail, were engaged in assorting the mail, both registered and general, for delivery at…