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Show KANSAS BANDIT WILL PROBJBLUECIIR Man Identified as Wells Louns-berry Louns-berry of Medford, Or.; Not His First Offense. TOPEKA. Kan., Aug. 2?, The daring holdup of the Union Pacific mail train near here Inst nieht was not the first big robbery Wells Founsbcrry of Medford, Or., had executed. As he lay upon a cot In Ihe hospital here today, seriously wounded, Liounsberry confessed that he held up a Southern Pacific train In similar manner last January at Red Bluffs, Cal. His operations opera-tions thfn woi .- similar to those used last night The robber said thai in the California Cali-fornia holdup he boarded the train at Rod Bluffs and forced the three mall clerks to pick oul the registered mall for htm. At Reddintr he boarded a Pullman On the Harm1 I rain and escaped detection, A reward of $3000 had been offered for the capture of the Reel Hluffn rubber. The failure to put off mall at Lawrence, Law-rence, Kan., led to Lounsberrv r. capture. When the train passpd through there, and the pouches were not fortfrcOtninga an investigation in-vestigation disclosed the mall clerks bound and agK-d Word of th' robbery was then telephoned to Topeka, where the robber was captured It was said at il." hospital tonight that Ixuinsherry would recover. |