Show BANDITS TRICKED BY CLERKS train robbers overlooked mail sack and are poorly paid for trouble spokane one of the most daring hold holdups ups ever attempted on a trans continental train befell northern pa no 3 almost within the city urn lim its of spokane after midnight satur day night two masked highwaymen stopped the train at otis and boarded the engine after a brief encounter with the engineer and fireman the mall mail car next to the engine was de cached and one of the highwaymen taking charge of the engine the par ty came on west to trent where the trainmen were dismissed by the rob bers hers the bandits then proceeded to t 0 within a mile of yardley where they proceeded to rob the mall mail car the baggage car and the express car were untouched and n none one ot of th the passengers was molested tricked by the quick wit of mall mail clerks little plunder Is believed to have been captured by the two men warned that the robbers were corn com ing the clerks took advantage of the time after the train bad had been cut in two and threw the local registered packages into a newspaper sack where they were mere not noticed |