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Show DETECTIVES TRAP HAT And by So Doing They Landed Four Train Robbers in Jail St Ixmls, Feb. 12. A brond-brlmmed brond-brlmmed sombrero found on the scene of the robbery of a Missouri Pacific train near Glencoe, Mo., by a reporter was the clue followed by postoffle'e Inspectors In-spectors for hundreds of miles, which resulted in the arrest yesterday of four men In Jail here, one of w hom has confessed. In his confession, Gorge Ebeling said that the hat was worn by himself, and that he had borrowed il from William Lowe, one ot the other men under arresl. The hat contained tho name of a St. Louis manufacturer. From tho manufac turer it was traced to a Texas firm, where it was involved in a robbery. rob-bery. It was rephlppod to the manufacturer, manu-facturer, thence sold to a dealer In Kansas. Detectives trailed it to Texas again and learned that it had eventually eventu-ally come info the possession of Lowe. Tho lalter's arrest followed. |