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Show u Postal Blunder Clears Identity of Bank Suspect ! SPOKANE, Wajth., May 3 81 1 Lnuls Mike" Donnelly said by police ,to be wanted at Port Orchard "Wnh j for bank rfhbery, han i. blunder Of the 1'nlted States mail service to Vila me for his Identification, followlnjf j his arrest in Colorado SprlngSt Colo. A letter from the chief of police- at Colorado Springs, containing tho tln-gor tln-gor prints of a suspect giving the j name Joseph Donnelly, and addre;jfed to the chief of police at. Sacranuento, Calif., was through some ml.hap de-i de-i llvered to the Spokane chiet" of puh e. who opened it without noticing thf error The finger prints were found to conform to tho-?e of the .illeKCd iank robber, for whom a jsoo reward had been offered. Tho gang of which Donnelly is aid to have been a member is credited TNlth a number of bank robberies in western Wn.shington. Ono of th group. Frank Grant, was killed In a battle with officers near Port Towneend; a second. James Mc-Nulty, Mc-Nulty, was traced to Oakland, Oil , and a third, Ernest Browning, pleaded plead-ed guilty and Is in the atate penitentiary. |