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Show FOR LIFE Mail Train Bandit Is Severely Punished for His Crime Spokane. Oci. 1 1 . Charles I). Howell, convicted mail trai.i bandit, v. a.s sentenced today to life imprison- inent In the feib-ral prison at .McNeills .Mc-Neills island, by Federal Judge VA-ward VA-ward Whitson. Howell was convicted on Svpt. 3"ti 01 having robbed a mall car on tho Great Northern railroad. March 24th, KlOS. 11.- effected ;m enrrnuce bl I po.-ing as a mail laspector .tter tin train was turner way, he held up mi ', bound one clerk, wliui an.ither In j locker, rifled the recistered mail and left the train as U eutere.l the t-uU urbs of .Spokane. Howell wn.; Id. ntifi. d ns the robb. r of the mail ca;- afLer In- had beer, arrested ar-rested lor a daring holdup in i?eattlo ! seeral months atn I |