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Show I SEEK HAND OF KYLE IN OLD MAIL THEFT ' Postal Officers Find He Had Tools Taken From Convicted Con-victed Gang MT. VKIt.VON." ill., Feb. 6. Postal Pos-tal Inspector Hitchcock and his invest i- 8i turn ctnttreil their effort today in) attempting to prove that Guy Kyle, ex- ( Free Methodist preacher and mall rob- j her. ha been roncerned in other mail theft besides the $..'12,000 robbery here I whlrh he has confessed complicity. They took the tools found in Kyle's j jtiirae to their office and began an othe rrheck which may connect Kyle with the thrft a year ago of $17,000 In 1 cash and securities from a mail sack. ! inspector Rlrtrr; one of the officers whcTj helped discover this plunder, knows the , tools well. He put marks on them after they had been taken from a pa i iff convicted con-victed of bund and pontoffice robberies throutihout Southern Illinois. He sent them through ihe mails from St. Louis to Inspector Hitchcock in Ml. Vernon Ver-non to be used as evidence in the trial of the band. They were stolen before they reached Hitchcock and have now appeared in Kyle's possession. "Kyle says he bouKht hem," said In- spector Hitchcock, "but investigation may bring out a curious phase. It is too early now to commit ourselves on J tbw unw leri." 1 1 "I can't help much in this new Investigation." In-vestigation." said Isorin Williamson, the partner who reported discovery of the stolen money m week ago, and Is now accused by Kyie. "except that he seemed to have money. He led me to' believe last October, when I entered' partnership wit li him in the automo- ; Idle business, that he had plenty of i money, und h-ince his arrest I find hei has ordered huge shipments of goods' in the Ut f'w months. He asked me many times about the movements of1 mail nt the pontuff ice. ami used to get' up uliout 4:30 every morning. No one knew what he did in thowe early hours. You may remember that last Decem-ber. Decem-ber. abort the time the payroll money! for the mines was due to come through, a nuii l su( k disappeared from the mail wtiflon. It contained only letters, however, how-ever, and has never been traced." Officers are no working on the theory the-ory that Kyle had a hand In the disappearance disap-pearance of that sack and may have been concerned In payroll lilting for the last few years. It I understood that the inspectors j nre planning i. recall Kyle for examt-.J i union in tin pij-ienre f f Hl?t wlfo. rrr was only aftor his wife pleaded with j him to tell the whole truth that he j ir.aile his first confession. i "Nothing must be withheld," she said j this morning. "A wrnm can never be; righted by concealing it. My man knows , that his f.imily loves him and will wait j for him to pay the penalty of his act." A church bell breaking the absolute calm that ruled Mount Vernon on a .Sunday morning seemed to shatter today to-day for the first time the aalmness of j fiuy Kyle, minisetr nnd mall robber. The bell roused him in his cell and he j pleaded with Sheriff Irvin to allow his daughter May to vlHlt him. I ' Jirothers." he said, while waiting I for the girl to come to the Jail, "thej laws of man can now punish me for' my guilt In trying to hide this stolen ( fortune. I hope to settle my fullt with . Ine jtrd when this is all over." ! "Leave religion out of this." advised tlw j-heriff. "Your duty is now simple. AH you have to do is to tell us the; entire truth About the mail robbery itnd who ese Is guilty. You can't ; shoulder guilt either on your partner j or 3 Qur.iintkgnl! Kyle protected again that he had told i the trutli in his confession yesterday. I His daughter May broke down when lihe reached the Jail. "1 biddy." she sobbed, 'they are all talking about me and mother in this town. They always will talk about us nnd. oh. we couldn't help your taking ', the money. We didn't want it. Tell j r them evei thlng and thfn maybe we 3 hm stand it to have all theo people P talk about us." ' |