Insufficient Postage

[janduscframe]

and for that reason, the 16 little brown packages remained on the shelf of the New York General Post Office. It's 1919 and one of them is addressed to a Judge Landis. What was in the boxes? Though it has not been proven, previous packages of the same nature indicate where they came from. Who is thought to have sent them? Later, 16 more of these little boxes show up and they also are short on postage. Previous to the above incident, there were several other packages that did reach their intended recipients. There is reference to this on the web, but it doesn't mention that K Landis was one of the intended recipients, so I thought I would offer up this questions.

[RuthMayBond]

Ill-gotten World Series gambling/throwing proceeds?

[Zito75]

and for that reason, the 16 little brown packages remained on the shelf of the New York General Post Office. It's 1919 and one of them is addressed to a Judge Landis. What was in the boxes? Though it has not been proven, previous packages of the same nature indicate where they came from. Who is thought to have sent them? Later, 16 more of these little boxes show up and they also are short on postage. Previous to the above incident, there were several other packages that did reach their intended recipients. There is reference to this on the web, but it doesn't mention that K Landis was one of the intended recipients, so I thought I would offer up this questions.

Was it PED shipments? :happy:

[Zito75]

Ill-gotten World Series gambling/throwing proceeds?

That makes sense actually. In Al Stump's book COBB there is mention to a lot of riff-raff going around in the late teens.

[bluezebra]

and for that reason, the 16 little brown packages remained on the shelf of the New York General Post Office. It's 1919 and one of them is addressed to a Judge Landis. What was in the boxes? Though it has not been proven, previous packages of the same nature indicate where they came from. Who is thought to have sent them? Later, 16 more of these little boxes show up and they also are short on postage. Previous to the above incident, there were several other packages that did reach their intended recipients. There is reference to this on the web, but it doesn't mention that K Landis was one of the intended recipients, so I thought I would offer up this questions.

In 1919 Landis was a Federal Judge, with no mention of his being sought after to be the first MLB Commissioner.

Bob

[EdTarbusz]

According to several books that I have read, in 1919 Landis was being sought out by several owners to replace Garry Herrman on baseball's National Commission.

[EdTarbusz]

and for that reason, the 16 little brown packages remained on the shelf of the New York General Post Office. It's 1919 and one of them is addressed to a Judge Landis. What was in the boxes? Though it has not been proven, previous packages of the same nature indicate where they came from. Who is thought to have sent them? Later, 16 more of these little boxes show up and they also are short on postage. Previous to the above incident, there were several other packages that did reach their intended recipients. There is reference to this on the web, but it doesn't mention that K Landis was one of the intended recipients, so I thought I would offer up this questions.

Based on the politics of the time, I would guess that they were bombs, possibly mailed by groups like the IWW. Landis sentenced several IWW members to long prison terms for anti-draft activity during WWI. One famous bomb recipient was A Mitchell Palmer, the US Attorney General. Another bomb was exploded on Wall Street. I believe the mayor of Seattle received a bomb also.

[janduscframe]

Ed, you're right on the money.. Bombs. A previous one had blown the hands off a servant. They were not able to prove for certain where these had come from, but all arrows point to the Communists. So if there had been no Judge Landis to ascend to the throne? .