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Show FIVE ROBBERS j IN AUTOMOBILE MAKE BIG HAUL Currency and Bonds in Twelve Main Bags Loot of Bandit Quintet MEN WORK QUICKLY: THEIR FACES MASKED Detectives Declare Procedure Points to Possibilities of "Inside Job" CHICAGO. Jan. 18 Five youthful bandits held up a United States mail truck at the union station here early today, escaping in an automobile with : twelve sacks of mall, ten of which contained con-tained registered mail. Police say that I the pouches contained part of a fed-era fed-era reserve bank money shipment destined for St. Paul The bandits surprised three postal I employes guarding tho pouches, forcing forc-ing them at the point of guns back iinto their truck, while the bandit cai drew alongside and the twelve mail bags were transferred to It. The rob- bers worked swlftlv and the robbery j was accomplished In a few minutes- DRRI M Y AVI) BONDS. The registered mall was composed solely of city collections; the police I say and the registered mail bags were i supposed to contain currency and : bonds of a value not yt t estimated. f I. I ....i uolrl lV.nl 'only a few minutes after Ihey had arrived ar-rived at the station with their mail, the bandit car dashed up. The police 'believe the robbery was an inside Job and that the bandits had knowledge of the bank shipment Thomas Carter Richard J. Sllney and Phillip Cahlll, postal employes, : said ih five robbers, none of whom i appeared to be more than ear.s old, all wore black masks and -..-i r.:.-il the robbeo' so quickly that the attention 'of a watchman and a railroad mall foreman working r.earb.. was i..jt attracted at-tracted untlj the bandit car was speeding speed-ing away with the twelve pouches. M N Bl 100 ' Postal authorities early today were 'unable to estimate the amount of the Moot They said the shipments to tho northwest which usually jjo out on the 2.30 mail average about J 100,000 In lvalue but they consoled themselves 'with the knowledge that tho Tuesday shipments are generally light. |