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Show CARRIER CONFESSES j ROBBING THE MAILS DESTYER, Colo., Aug. 2. Postoffice inspectors horo announced today that Charles I. Wagner, a mail carrier at Hachita, N. M., had confessed that ho was the man who robbed the mail carried car-ried by himself, thus solving the mystery mys-tery surrounding a crime that has puzzled puz-zled the federal authorities for several weeks. Wagner also confessed that he shot himself through tho arm to give color to hiB story that he was held up b" two Mexicans. j-'ollowing tho announcement of the robbery, tho government sent a squad of soldiers on the trail-of tho supposed highwaymen. Two Mexicans wore arrested ar-rested and identified by Wagner as tho robbers. Tho Mexicans proved alibis, and wore released. It is not known how much loot was secured se-cured by tho robbor. |