| Show LONE HIGHWAYMAN RifLES MAIL OAR GAR GARBold Bold and Daring and Cool as Christmas He Ho Selects His Plunder CLERKS LOOKED DOWN GUN Tine Then They nicy 1110 Ills lIs Commands Without a II l Ks Es EmlI ng III He I Ic Did ild Ini Spokane Wash March 15 1 Assum Assuming ing log all tho the airs nIls and auci authority of at a IL vet veteran ot eran cran inspector IO a 11 daring highwayman boarded bearded tho the Great Groat North Northern ern em oriental limited train Just ns us It out of or Manners Bonners Ferry Fern Idaho early carl this morning and holding hoMing tho tha two malls clerks clerIc at bay at the tho point ot otIL Ota u IL revolver reoler locked ono one Of ot them In a n clothes clo etl and tied tho the other othel to a ma elmair with ropes rope after which he rode roda a II distance of at 90 0 miles Into Spokane spending 3 hours and anti 40 minutes rifling mall malt and loading and tin un loading mall sacks along the tite route Tho rho bandit purred puffed complacently on a IL cigar tho the while lIle The rho lone bandit oft off tho time train at ot a 11 railroad a crossing dossing Inside the city elt limits carrying with him It is tH believed by b many much plan plunder der dr In III n a 1 Just how much he obtained Is U not definitely known CLERKS S TOLL STOUT Mull Mall Clerks Benjamin Stumpf and John W V who wore were held helel at the tho mercy macray of the time robber rohber toll a story stor of ot their experiences lacked In Inthe the small closet hardly two feet square the tho latter lutter almost fainted from suffocation lion tion after the train hud had pulled Into luto Sand Point 31 ii miles west of Bonners Ferry Perr and rapping on the tha door plead pleaded ed cd with the tho lubber bor to allow him some fresh air all rite Tho bandit responded will willingly willIngly and leaving time the door ajar about an inch It I t with u a of or rope Twice later on mm time the way WU Into Spokane tho tIme robber rob her ceased his hI work of ot rilling rifling tho the mall sacks bucks to go 10 to tho door of ot the tho closet to Inquire as to how was feeling When remonstrated with hIs ills captor that the tho cords which bound boum him were cutting Into his wrists the robber generously loosened the time fet fat fetters et and mantle mado every eely effort to make malco It 03 II comfortable as possible for tor his vie vic victim Ie IetI tim tI m tIpping ripping open the registered sacks the tho pseudo Inspector cut one of ot othis his fingers lingers and many places of at mail wore worD bloodstained DOGS LOSE SCENT T Bloodhounds were put on tho trail ot the tho robber by b means menns of or one ono of ot tho lie bloody packages and followed a trail I several blocks I through tho the residence district to a car line where the tho scent was lost It Is believed that tho the high highwayman highwayman wayman boarded a n car and und rode rodo down downtown downtown downtown town Inspector G D B Linn Lina with witha a II corps of or assistants spent tho the after atter afternoon noon checking up the tho contents of the tha six pouches to see ceo eo what was missing Inspector announced It as his be iiO belief lief ilef that little plunder was obtained |
