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Show POSTMASTER HELD DP BY MASKED ROBBERS Believed cf $960 of Trust Funds Left in His Hands for Safe Keeping. 1 COLVILLE, Wash., Feb. 4. Two masked men last night held up the postmaster at Echo, a small place in Stevens county, and robbed hln of $960. Postmaster Watts was closing his store when the robbers entered. One of them shoved a revolver in his face and ordered him to throw up his hands. The other robber then searched the victim and went through the till. Most of the money taken was trust funds left with the postmaster for safe keeping. No one else was present, and there is slight clue to the Identity of the robbers. |