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Show Auto Bandits Get Payroll Staunton, Til. Flvo armed men lat Saturday held up G. A. Roborts, post master ot this city, and n posta clerk, in tho heart ot tho city am escapod with approximately $45,000 tho payroll ot tho Mount Olive am Staunton Coal company mines, neai hero. Tho monoy, which had nrrlvec on Wabash train No. 60, was intendec to moot tho biweekly payrolls at thi mine, Roberts nnd Harry Kouben, thi money ordor clerk In the local post office, as was customary, had obtalnoi tho pouch containing the money frnn tho train and wero proceeding to thi postofflco. When only two blocki from tho postofflco and about throi blocks from tho station thoy wen forced to stop their mnchlno by i volloy of shots fired from tho bandits car. Roborts nnd Kouhen both wen armed, but nelthor had opportunity t( |