Show I IP UC MAil CAR AR J THIEVES Eleven Registered Pouches From Western Cities Stolen at at Omaha i I COUNCIL BLUFFS Ia la Nov 15 Postoffice inspectors at noon today ad ad- I the arrest of Merl Men Phillips 20 20 l employed as a man mall sorter In the raIlI railway railway rail raIl- wa way r mail man service with headquarters I I here in connection with the mall mail car carP robbery here Saturday night and also i that he had made a confession to having havling hayI hav hay I ling ing hail had a part in the robbery He Implicated imI Im Im- im- im I I t two other men it was stated t According to the same authority I Yo Young ng Phillips said he was riding on onI I the engine tender at th the time of the I I robbery and was acting as a lookout that h he knew of the plans but did didn n not t participate in the actual robbery fur further furher her than th this I OMAHA Neb Nov l 15 lEv Ev Every ry I available police and federal officer In v his r ini ty i is S 'S searching searching- i e h ing f e rim hO te W l n gh in J storage at th the Union rp t transfer si station tion in Council Bluff and stole en ee pouches of registered man mall No Ko arrests thus thus thus' far tar have been made Police are making a r roundup of ot every very criminal in the two cities in an ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort to capture the guilty on ones onOs s. s After a complete check up Charles CharlesH H II H. Woods chief clerk of the thi railway man mall district announced this morning that the amount amount tak taken p is about 20 20 Eleven rc registered wee taken Woods said saHl one of f which was later recovered The robbers are believed to have hav en entered en t the e car as it left the transfer station by breaking a small window I They then chained the he door so 50 that no one could d ter Then they threw out the the- pouches along the right of wa way The pouches evidently nU were picked up by confederates in automobiles automo biles J Just before the train r reached ached the tha Co Council nen BI Bluffs city depot the robbers robbers rob rob- bers are supposed to have swung from the car cat and made their escape The eleven pouches s are said to have come from m points on the Pacific coast I I destined for Chicago and New York ork One federal officer said the the- loss might prove to be one of the largest of its kind in this section but on on the theother theother other hand might have been comparatively comparatively com com- ly sm small a II An estimate however however however how how- ever V was impossible to make f federal deral officials pointed out until shippers of ot the mall reported d what the stolen sacks contained A check up with them w was s being made |