Show r y yr yr ClOSE t K r y y a IN ON TRAIN S R BANDITS v MJ MYSTERY THY PHA PHASE DEVELOPS r A AS OffiCIAl I PROBE Parcel Contents Unknown May Have Been Purpose t of Holdup Passengers Passengers' Not Deprived of Valuables r ITH the dim print of a tire tiro W winding over oyer the wastes of the Great American desert serving serving ing as a clue posses o of two states Utah and Nevada today began a wedge drive into the he heart rt of ot the Sagebrush Sagebrush Sage Sag brush state close on the trail trall It Is believed believed believed be be- of the three daring automobile bandits who held up and robbed Deep Deell Creek train No 1 I near neat Salt Springs I I Utah early yesterday morning The breath of mystery has lIas been heen I blown upon the case with the discovery today by Salt Lake federal authorities that the robbers made away with but butone butone butone one package of ot mail mall mall-a a small unidentified unidentified unidentified fied parcel The contents of the package package package pack pack- age have not been ascertained No other mail mall was taken although the mail pouch returned to Salt Lake Hake today was ripped with a sharp knife from end to end and the mail mall strewn over the floor of the coach Buoyed on with the knowledge knowledg of a standing government reward of 1000 1000 for the capture and conviction of each perpetrator of a train and mall mail i rob robbery ob bery the posses today according to In Information Information information In- In formation coming to Salt Lake are arc racing over the flat salt lands in automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles stopping for nothing in an sin effort to catch the three robbers by bv sundown SHERIFF LEADS HUNT Federal officials Interested in the case announced that the sheriffs of oC Tooele county and of the Nevada county coon coun ty bordering the Utah line near the scene had Immediately upon hearing of the robbery entered automobiles with several of the leading citizens of of Wendover and little outlying districts and sped toward a point In Nevada where It is believed th men have hav gone All of the tho members of the posses are are aror r heavily armed and it itis is not believed if 11 the robbers are seen that difficulty will be encountered in capturing them and bringing them back to stand trial for a crime which If proved may give ghe each of the men a life sentence in the the federal prisons The charges according to E. E A A Abney Abney Abney Ab- Ab ney postoffice inspector who has has' be been n working on the case In Wendover re returning re- re turning to the Salt Lake office today would be Robbery of a train carrying United States mail mall robbery with a deadly weapon cutting a mail mall pouch and and in in the shooting of Charles Barberg berg a passenger robbery with attempted attempt d' d murder T MYSTERY PACKAGE i o t Even if the mail mall the men took tool Mr l Abney said today Is not worth II a ax great deal the tha offense is just as great as if it if they had made awa away with thou tho thousands thousands sands or hundreds of thousands of ot cCo Continued on nn on pa page 8 JO MYSTERY PHASE Continued from page 1 1 dollars worth of ot registered matter I Hut But so far tar as as' we have been able to find the men took away only express packages and other matter and not I any quantity of ot mall except the one parcel post package Mystery surrounds surrounds surrounds sur sur- rounds this one package we cannot tell at this time what It contained It may havE havo contained a necktie or something something some- some j thing of such intrinsic value to the themen I men mn that they would hold up the train Ifor for tor the purpose of ot getting this one package p of mystery Reports ports that the robbers had lined the tho passengers up and rifled their pocketbooks and made away with valuables valuables ables ables to the estimated value of ot several thousands of ot dollars were denied by federal fedral officials It was said the passengers suffered no loss of ot valuables valuables' The mystery surrounding the case it itIs itIs itIs Is hoped will be cleared within the next twenty four hours with word from the tho pursuing posses Charles Barberg the man who vho was shot by one of ot the robbers underwent I an operation on his leg as St. St Marks Mark's I hospital today I His Ilis condition is said to be Improving I |