Show U S Si MAil WAGON Daring Thieves Secure in New Orleans Driver and Clerk Held Beld on Suspicion New Orleans Jan 26 Daring thieves tonight held up and robbed a United wagon loaded with incoming mail mall which had Just arrived from Cin Cincinnati Cincinnati Cm and other northern points over the Queen Crescent route The thieves were reported to have secured about 5 but the postoffice authorities refused to make any statement about the amount of the robbery The wagon which was heavily screened and on which rode a driver and his helper was attacked near some freight cars ears In the downtown sec tion of the city eity lt The driver and clerk neither of whom were hurt wore were were held by b the police on suspicion At least two out of eleven mail sacks were rifled Barney Simmons the clerk and S J T Smith the negro driver who were held by the police pollee say that two men armed with revolvers r stopped the horses and Jumped lumped Into the wagon The wagon was then driven to a dark spot about yards from froma a police pollee station where the robbers ob obtained obtained tamed the key to the screened portions of the wagon and after forcing for the mail mall Into a box car returned to rifle the mall mail |