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Show r ACCUSED PREACHER BEMOANS FALL FROMGRACE Authorities Doubt His Story of Theft of $212,000 - From Mails MT. VKRNON. HI., Jan. 22. Ouy .Kyi, former pastor of th tYee Methodist church, sat In his cell today to-day and told newspaper men how the fortune he Rot as a result of a theft from the mail her last week turned to dirt In his hands, fie said he was ready to rn to jail. He denied he had any part in the actual robbery of tHe $212,000, or knew that It had been committed until hours later, but he admitted thst ha had helped conceal the money In his home and garage, and expected to share In it. TELL8 HIS STORY. "I was working In our Karaf downtown down-town a week ago Friday," he confessed con-fessed to poHtal Inspectors, "when the nisht watchman from the poatofflce came In And aed to borrow a revolver, re-volver, I asked him what he wanted It for, and he told me of the robbery. It was then 9 o'clock. The robbery had been committed at o'clock. J "At 1 o'clock thst afternoon, Loren Williamson, my partner, came in with a bif package. He opened it. I saw h wwl saw In 1 s he wwr,' Williamson said. He took Ma pocket-knife pocket-knife and slit the hag. Tart of the monev fell out. -'My lori,' I said. 'What can we do with iT -Williamson told me to help him ul the money In handy' planes about the niraire. We started rint In to uo it. I was his accomplice.'' DOUBT HIS STORY. Postal Inspectors, working under Hay W. Hitchcock, refuse to arrest Williamson. They believe Kyle's assertions as-sertions regarding Williamson are fi'lse. "We put a. lot of the money In an empty egg crate," said Kyle in hii confession, made public today. "We put more In a box and stuck It under the flour. Then we carried the crate to the attic. "Then we began to plan. I was to move soon Into a new house, and we thought we could haul It to the house In a dray. We planned to bury it in ili front yard and take out a little at a time and put it in the bank. Then we were going to organize a stncfc company and self the securities. Afier that, we were going to leave. I wart goinj to Florida or California." It was "lied' Allen, an expressman, who furnished th clue that led to Kyle'n siret. He said Kyl had hired him to taUt a box to his home. The r ha rges wer Ky le ga ve h m t ." jmd told him to keep the change. This generosity excited suspicion. SUSPICIOUSLY GENEROUS. Kyle was arrested yesterday after SlOu.ono had been found in hi home and $7. 000 In his garage. He has admitted burning some of the securities, securi-ties, totaling 127,000. Mrs. Kyle rocked her -.-months-old baby as she told between sobs t hat nlie knew nothing of the robbery until her husband bad been arrested. The I inspectors believe her. "I will stand by him." she said, i "even if this is the greatest shock of j -my lift). 1 will not shield him. When I I he comes out of prison, me can start life over again.' i KYLE'S LIFE STORY. 1 Kvh- rnld newspnper men of his pust -j life. J " w-i caught gambling when I was , a .imall boy." he said. "I was arrest- . n and fMid mv fine. I left town and ( vent to Kast St. Loum, where 1 final- j lv became keeper of a gambling house. . I wms caught and sent to prison. I . hnve gone straight since that time. . That w a twenty years ago. "Now. out vourself In mv olftce. 1 . m afrHld of my own hand. The money mon-ey turned to dirt and sand for me. I would have given anything in the world to hve never seen Williamson. I nm guilty before Cod and man because be-cause I helped conceal the stuff. I i)art to let the Imw take its course. I sh;:H not employ a lawyer unless the court makes me." FORMCRLY A PREACHER, -Kyle came to Mt. Vernon nix years siro as pastor of the Free ltthndist church. Three years ago he resigned, because "the best money 1 could make preaching w.jb IH'UO a year, and I couldn't raise my family on that."" The manner in which the robbery as committed has not been ascer-tainej. ascer-tainej. The mail bag disappeared fim a truck between the pot office iid the station. |