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Show ROBBER KILLED II BAHLEWITH POSSE Three Others Surrounded j Bank Bandits Fail to Get Away With Plunder SEATTLE, Wash. Dec 18 Four men, firing shots In all directions appeared early tonight before the Duvall State bank at Duvall, King county thirty miles eaat of Seattle and entering the bank, which bad just been opened for the Saturday night s bueinees seized a sack containing it0 In silver dollars Tbe men fled up the Snoqualmie river afoot, carrying tbe heavy bag of silver In a few minutes the alarm spread through the town and a posse of armed men set out In pursuit of the robbers. About a mile above town the posse came upon one of the robbers, who was taking silver dollars from the sack and placing them in his pocket. The robber fired at the posse, whose leader threw a spot light on the robber directing the aim of the other members of the poBe and the robber was riddled with bullets. He fell or Jumped over the bank of the river Into the swift mountain stream and. If not kll ed by the bullet wounds he must have been drowned The body has not been recovered The posse recovered the money bag which had $368 left in it, and then pressed on in pursuit of the other three robbers It 1b belle, ed that they have been surrounded in the woods bordering the stream |