Pleasant Grove Review | 1935-02-08 | Page 5 | Former American Fork Man Frustrates Robbery

FORMER AMERICAN FORK MAN FRUSTRATES ROBBERY Mr. and Mrs. Bram Duncan received re-ceived a letter Wednesday from their son, Len, who was one of the mafl clerks who frustrated an attempted mail car robbery just out of Salt Lake Saturday evening. The letter follows: Salt Lake City, Utah, February 5, 1935 Dear Folks: "Just a line to tell you everything is all right. Of course you read in the papers about us being held up in the mail car Saturday night. A gang told us to open the doors and give them what valuable mail we had and we refused and they started shooting. So did we, and I guess we won out. We didn't loose anything and did not get hurt. "We had the drop on them because be-cause we were in the car in the dark and they were outside in the light. "The Postmaster-General and some other officials wired us congratula-' tions and some papers made a great story out of it. "This is the first time in my 30 years I've ever been in a holdup. I hope it's the last. Don't know what will happen next. My book of experiences ex-periences is about full: wrecks, explosions, ex-plosions, washouts and now a holdup." hold-up." Love to both of you, Len.