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Show BIG PACKAGE STOLEN MONEY IS RECOVERED Pcnsacola, Fla., Sept. 23. Tho package containing $G5,000 In currency, curren-cy, wh'ch was mysteriously extracted from nn express shipment from tho F.rst National bank hero to tho Louisville & Nashvlllo pay car at Flomaton, Aln., was found todny at tho rear of tho bank by tho negro Janitor of tho buldlng. Detectives nro working on several Important clues which nro reported to rovcal the Identity of the robber. A telephono message was received at tho bank Saturday evening, but was unheeded becauso officials beVov-ed beVov-ed It was from a practical Joker. They now think It Indicates the package pack-age waB placed lit tho rear of tho bank building that evening by the thief. Tho robber was pursued so closely close-ly that his nervo failed him, and ho crept to tho bnnk and loft tho money whero It was found, today, It Is generally gen-erally bolloved. Dank ofTla'nls reassert confidence that tho package cdntnlnlng tho $55,-000 $55,-000 was delivered Intact to tho South-orn South-orn Express ngency hero Wednesday morning of last week. When delivery deliv-ery wns mndo to tho Louisville & Nashvlllo pay car that day nt Flomaton, Flo-maton, tho currency which represented represen-ted tho raTlroad's monthly pay for that district was missing, and In Its stead wero found slips ot paper cut from magazines. T1h bank claims to havo taken un-ubuoI un-ubuoI caro In preparing tho currency1 fdr shipment. Sovernl ot its employees, employ-ees, among them a son of tho president, presi-dent, rodo In an nutomobllo with the money to the Southern Express company's com-pany's ofllce and got a receipt for It. -- |