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Show B RAILWAY iAILi ! Forces Three Clerks to Floor j and Fourth to Bind Them; ' Robs Pouches j KANSAS CITY. April S. Tho mail cvar of Atchison, Topeka and Santa ( Fo railroad train No., 9, Chicago to Kansas City, wa3 robbc-d by -a ban-thc ban-thc amount of loot obtained was avail-; dlt between Lexington' Junction and Kansas City tonight. No estimate of able. I The bandit boarded tho train at Lex-lington Lex-lington Junction, llo., 30 miles east of here. Knterlng tho mail car flourish-i ing a revolver, he forced thrco of the! four mail clerks to lie, face downward down-ward on the floor, and compelled a j fifth to bind them. He then bound the fifth man himself and proceeded leisurely leis-urely rifle the. registered mail. No inkling of the robbery was obtained ob-tained until tho train reached Kansas I City, when tho five cierk3 were found bound. Motor cars of police armed) jwlth riot guns were sent immediately; to the spot where the bandit left the! train and are proceeding to search i the adjoining woods. Other police are watching all roads leading to the city, ostoffico officials set to work imme-jdiately imme-jdiately in an effort to check tho rog-ittcred rog-ittcred mall to determine the amount obtained by the bandit. Estimates of the amount taken by the bandit was unobtainable late Po-I Po-I night. Employes at the central postofficc. on the night force, however, said that the train the last three nights has carried car-ried registoi-ed mail or unusually high lvalue, due to tho fact that express) transportation has boon curtailed by! the strike of Chicago switchmen. This I registered mail has on previous nights! : in that period, consisted largely of currency cur-rency and bonds., they said. |