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Show All in Building Held Prisoners Kansas City, Mo. Seventy-five persons, per-sons, including government officials, were imprisoned for fifteen minutes at the p int of bayonets in the federal building here late Wednesday, when a postoffice employe accidentally stepped step-ped on nn electric switch signal and the marine postal guard turned out. Marines with fixed bayonets guarded guard-ed every exit from the building while others searched the building for a disturbance. ().sca.r Schmitz, chief agent for the department of justice, tried to leave the building, but was halted. He showed his credentials to the guard, but neither that disnduy nor an attempt to "toll it to the marines" mar-ines" gained him permissfr.m to leave the building until it was determined that the alarm was accidental. |