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Show MAIL THIEVES HANDGUFFTHE1R VICTIM TO TREE - Value of Registered Packages in Three Pouches Now Being Be-ing Investigated JWFBRSON CITY. Mo . March 1.1 ! Four armeil men early today robbed, Gcottt Williams, 80 years old, a post ifflco mOMCnsor, Of threi- pouches of reglatoMd mail. The value of the mall has not been .UU-rmlncd. 1 The bandit waylaid Williams at li a. m.. kbducted htm In an automobile, to ;l point near New Hloomf leld, 1 miles north of here, and handcuffed I him to a tree. Williams had taken the mall from ' Missourl-i'aciric train No 13 which ar- rived from St. Louis nt Lt2 a. m-. .iii.l Was. taking It in an automobile tit the poetofflce, five blot kn from the Mai. on lie had reached the edge of the Capitol grounds when hvo men b v ailed 1 ovoh era at him. Compl) ing with their command Williams Wil-liams :lo,. Keveral blocks h-n two more urmed men boarded the auto-I auto-I mobile, (jno of them handcuffed Wll- iii.miH. threw him In the tonneau of itheYnr and placed the mall sacks on 'top Of him. The robbers drove north land stopped and paid loll as they, crossed the Missouri river. After driving to a lonely spot near Ni w LUoomfield, the robbers stopped and handcuffed the messenger to Ires Then thev fled with the pouches. I Williams" cries attracted a farmer 'who chopped the chain In two with an axe. Williams then telephoned the I authorities. j 00 |