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Show IAIN BANDIT SUSPECTS CAUGHT IN FIGHT I ROBBER SHOOTS I MAIL CLERK III i DIULDUP Huge Sum Stolen, Report, When Bandit Boards Limited Train ATTEMPT TO ARREST SUSPECTS EXCITING Gun Battle Ends in Wounding i of Prisoner and Deputy Sheriff LITTLE FALLS, Minn., Feb. 19. Two suspects were arrested here early H today following a gun battle with of-fleers of-fleers and are being hhl in the coun-ty coun-ty jail here in connection with the in-vestlgatlon in-vestlgatlon Into the holdup of a mall car on train No- 2. on the Northern Pacific railroad Ust night. One of H rh' men was lightly wounded in th I head and a deputy sheriff suffered H a minor wound in his hand. DEPUTY SHTTRn-T" SHOT The men arrested Rave the mmel of Buck Allen and Hob Ford, both of H Minneapolis' Deputy Rherlff Hub Frel3lnger was shot In the left hand H and Ford In the arm. Neither- was H seriously hurt. H Sheriff Felix, of Morrison count?, was notified that a car going at high H speed was headed for Little Falls. He H Intercepted the suspects' machine and when they refused to stop, opened fire, which Was returned. Allen and H Ford are being held without charges H , pending further investigation. H ONE MAN JOB MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Feb. 19. i Only one man executed the holdup last night of three clerks in a mall car of the eastbound train, the North Coast limited, having boarded the train at Saint Cloud. Minn. He pro- dueed a pass, supposedly forged, and after talking with the clerks ordered one of them to bind the others. ('. B Strong resisted and was shot and scrl- Oualy wounded The bandit then emptied the contents of a registered mall sack into a crip and dropped off the train Unofficially It Was esti- mated tho loot amounted to several hundreds of thousands of dollars. |