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Show BANDITS BIND CLERKS AND LOOT MAIL CAR Bold Robbery in Alabama by Two Masked Men Who Had Overpowered Over-powered Mail Clerks. Birmingham, Ala The mail car on the fast Louisville ic Nashville passenger pas-senger train No. 4. northbound from New Orleans, was boarded and robbed early Tuesday night by two unidenti-tied unidenti-tied white men, who held up the mail clerk. The train reached Birmingham on time at S:37 o'clock and two of the mail clerks, George Hoover and E. G. York, were lounu uauucuneu logeuier in such a way that the irons had to be tiled from their wrists. The thumbs of Chief Clerk Harry Everett were securely se-curely bound together with heavy twine. The robbers boarded the mail car at Calera, on the side opposite the station, sta-tion, as the train began to move. The clerks said they immediately were covered cov-ered with revolvers and ordered to turn their faces to the wall.. Everett looked around once and was fired upon, the bullet just missing his head. The robbers jumped from the train at Fourteenth street in Birmingham. |