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Show II QFVB ADF jotyn akl I For the Attempted Rob-1 Rob-1 bery of County Treas-I Treas-I urer's Office w m i Des Moines, la., April 1. Seven ar- ? rests were made today In an effort p to apprehend the four men who, sbort-? sbort-? ly before mldnl?ht, bound and gaggeU ; Deputy County Treasurer G. V. Kel-' Kel-' ler, and tried to dyuamlto the vault In tho county treasurer's office, which y contnlned $100,000 On what Is said by the police to ' ho a confession from Al Rhodes, the I first of the men arrested. Deputy County Treasurer James O'Callaghan : has been held, O'Callaghan Is a broth- ; or of Robert O'Callaghan, a Western j league baseball manager. I With Rhodes and O'Callaghan, the pollco are -holding Bart Lynch aqd 5 his wife, Mrs Rhodes. -Clayton Bayles j and an unknown man Rhodes was 6 arrested after n ninnlng fight with k three officers shQrtly,.after midnight. I The officers en route to the house In which the suipected parties live, suddenly encountered the four men. One of them fired at the officers, and thon all ran. Rhodes was the only one placed under arrest at that time. Later the others were seized, pending Investigation. The attempted robbery of the vault proved a failure. One more charge of nltro-glycerlne would have given the men an entrance but they were frightened fright-ened away after tho first explosion, which practically wrecked the door. no |