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Show PAYMASTER ESCAPES FROM FOUR BANDITS Clings to Handle Bars of Motor Cycle Although Desperately Wounded in Side. WHITE PLAIN8, N. Y., Aug. 2. Samuel Howell of New York, paymaster pay-master for a firm of local building con-tractors, con-tractors, was skimming over the Bedford Bed-ford village road on his motor cycle today with money in his pocket to pay off a big gang of workmen, when four armed bandits. sprang from the bushes on the sido of the road and ordered him to halt. Howell's reply was 0 put on moro speed. As he whizzed past the highwaymen high-waymen all four fired. A sooond volley vol-ley planted a bullet in his side, almost knocking him from his seast. Ho clung to the handle bars, however, till he reached Mt. Kisco, whore he collapsed. Ho was rushed to New York on an express train, which had just pulled in, and put on the operating table at the Flower hospital. He probably will recover. Sheriff Doyle and a posso were searching the country sido for Howell 's assailants this afternoon, |