CRIME: Italians Bearing Gifts

Clerks in post offices are used to foreign-looking individuals who address packages queerly and argue over the amounts necessary for postage and insurance. What made Clerk Edward Werkheiser, 28, suspicious of two Italianate men in dark overcoats and soft hats who came into the Easton. Pa. post office one morning last week was the shape and weight of the six packages they shoved through the window. The packages seemed identical. Each was about 10 in. long, 5 in. wide, 5 in. deep. Each weighed 6 Ib. Yet the...

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