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Show PREACHER READY TO PLEAD GUILTY MOUNT VERNON, Ills.. Jan. 22.--Guy Kyle, former rev to. of the Mount Vernon Kree Methodist church, tonight to-night announced he would plead giiil-ty giiil-ty to complicity in the thefl In ro January Jan-uary 14 of thirty-one packages of registered reg-istered mail, containing more than H8S,000 Un casb and S.'T.ooo In securities se-curities and would throw hinrseif on 'he mercy of the court. He denied he participated in the theft of the pj I. ages but said he became be-came a partv to the robLcry after the packages were brought to a garuge of which he is half owner. The packages were in four mall sacks and were stolen from an express wagon In front Of the postoffli e. Kyle furnished postof flc inspectors villi th name of the man he said brought the sacks to the garage but the inspectors asserted they believed the man innocent and thai Kyis woe attempting to implicate him because he had been instrumental in clearing up the mystery. The actual amount recovered was 51SS.184.36. it wa." announced. |