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Show Identification Comes Through Postal Blunder Missent Letter Leads to Capture1 of Man Alleged to Have Looted Bank at Town in Washington SPOKANE. Waah.. May . "Bt. Louis Mike" Donnelly, said by police to be wanted at Port Orchard, Wash., for hank robbery, has a blunder of the I'nlted States mall service to blame for his Identification, following his arrest In Colorado Springs, Colo. A letter from the chief of police at Colorado Springs, containing the fingerprints fin-gerprints of a auapect giving the name Joeeph Donnelly, and addressed to the chief of police at Sacramento, Cel., waa through aome mishap delivered to the j Spokane chief of police, who opened It without noticing the error. .The fingerprints fin-gerprints were found to conform to thoea of the alleged bank robber, for whom a 1500 reward had been offered. Tha gang of which Donnelly Is said to have been a member Is credited with a number of bank, robberies In western west-ern Washing ton. One of tho group, Frank Grant, was killed In a battle with officers near Port Townsend; a second. Jsmes McNulty, was traced to Oakland. Cal, and a third. Krneet Browning, pleaded guilty and Is in the state penitentiary. |