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Show PAYMASTER AT I FACTORYROBBED J Two Men Jump From Auto and take $10,000 From lf Brown Shoe Company. m St. Louis, Mo., March 6. The pay- j 1 II master of the. Brown. Shoe company II was robbed of $10,000 at a factors of U ' tl the company this afternoon, accord- IL jfl ing to a report telephoned to police j I headquarters. Pfr The robbery was committed by two 1 1 mk men who jumped from an automobile, f H ran into the factory and held up the h jfl paymaster. Y. H They commanded the chauffeur to It P! drive them to a street car bound for the northern llmitb of the city. )i They boarded the car and told the H chauffeur not to follow them. flflft'l Paymaster Lucas went to a bank .ffMfl this afternoon and drew the money Bp with which to pay the factory em- iffil ployes. Later he went in an auto- Mfl mobile to the factory, stepped from Bfl the car and turned to take two valises MB containing .the money from the auto- 'HI mobile, As his back was turned, the rob- bers rushed towards him and covered him with revolvers. Lucas escaped H into the factory, but left the money 1 in the machine. 1 Later two men supposed to be the bandits got off a car in the south part 'Of the city, each one carrying a valise. Apparently they had left H the northbound car soon after board- Ing "it, and took one- In the opposite JH direction. M |