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Show Bandits to Great Haul in Mail Robbery Nlnety-Three Packac.es of Money Are Mltklng. Escape In An Automobile Cincinnati, Oct. 8. That not less than 1100,000 and probably more possibly as much ns $10,000,000 was secured by tho bandits who held up tho Daltlmoro & Ohio train No. 1 nt Central Station, W. Va., oaily today was tho opinion expressed by postal olllclals in Cincinnati tonight, after they had received ofllclal reports re-ports from Clerk In Charge Haines1 Huff and tho other two mall clerks who were held nt bny whllo tho bandits ban-dits escaped with nlnety-threo registered regis-tered packnges containing money shipped from tiio United States treasury trea-sury at Washington. From statements mado by tho thrco postal clerks to Superintendent Clark of tho fifth division of tho railway mall servlco and particularly from full nnd complete reports nindo Inter to Inspector Moran Grlswold of the Cincinnati division of tho post ofllco Inspection servlco there Is strong Indication In-dication that tho members of tho robber's band, or somo of them wero closely connected with the mall servlco ser-vlco or tho treasury department. No Trace of Robbers Found Wheeling, W. V., Oct. 8. Posses nro searching for two masked bandits who hold up nnd robbed a Ilaltlmoro & Ohio express train on routo from Now York to St. Louis two miles west of Centrnl W. Va., but up to n lato hour tonight no traco of them had been found. Reports regnrdlng tho amount of tho loot obtained by tho bandits tonight to-night varied. Ono said that Postmaster Post-master Sims Powell of Pnrkorsburg rocolvcd a telegram lato today advising advis-ing that fcdoral bank certificates wero In tho packages stolon from tho mall car, but tho amount was not specified. Local government officials who havo been In touch with tho situation situa-tion are of tho opinion that tho bandits ban-dits wero awaro thnt the money that was being sent from Washington was on this train as It has been definitely definite-ly learned that thoy demanded tho Washington packages of tho mall clerks. Englnemen Intimidated Englneor Grant HelmH who was nt tho throttlo when tho hold up occurred, occur-red, sold ho believed tho robbers boarded tho train between tho on-glno on-glno and tho mall car at Central when tho train stopped to tako on water. Shortly aftor tiio train had started again two men climbed Into tho cab, covering him and Fireman T. R. Knight with pistols, nnd ordered or-dered that tho train bo stopped. Three mall clerks woro In tho enr whon tho bandits entered nnd demanded de-manded tho registered mnll of which there w-oro about ninety packages on tho bench. Tho clerks wero then forced to leave tho car nnd tho engine en-gine and mall car wero taken on to Tollgato by tho bandits. At Tollgato tho two men abandoned abandon-ed tho encliio nnd car and got Into an automobllo which was In chargo of an accomplice They wcro soon to go In an easterly direction from that place. The opinion Is general among railroad rail-road men hero that tho bandits wero experienced railroad men. |