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Show ROBBER LOOTS N. P. MAIL CAR. Bandit Ransacks Car and Gets Away With $25,CXJ. Seattle. At least $25,000 was obtained ob-tained by ji robber who bound and gagged a mail dark on an easthound Northern Pacific passenger train between be-tween Seattle and Kanasket. Wash. Harry L. Mero, the mail clerk, declared de-clared the robber evidently concealed himself in the locker of the mail car some time before the train left Seattle. Se-attle. At S:10, Mero said, while he was working in tlie car lie was suddenly sud-denly ordered to ut up his hands. Looking around lie found himself facing fac-ing a revolver held by a masked man. The robber bound and gagged Mero and placed him iu the locker of the car. He then ransacked the car and obtained tlie registered money packages. pack-ages. Mero did not know if tlie robber had an accomplice on the car. When the train arrived at Kanasket,' no mail was thrown out of tlie car, tlie door of which remained closed. Railway employees, after pounding on tlie door, finally forced it open and found the clerk in the locker. |