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Show HAM SANDWICH IS CLUE TO ROBBERS Four Bandits Get $280,000 in Post-Office Blast. Pawtucket, R. I. A ham sandwich with lettuce and mustard dressing and an envelope addressed to a Boston Bos-ton woman may be the mejins of running run-ning down the four highly skilled yeggmen who spent three and one-half one-half hours leisurely robbing the Pawtucket Paw-tucket post office of about $260,000 In cash, stamps and negotiable securities. securi-ties. The sandwich, peculiarly flavored, was given by one bandit to Post Office Watchman Peter D. Kafferty as he and George D. Sullivan, a substitute clerk, two weeks employed, sat bound and trussed in chairs while the yegg-men yegg-men executed their carefully planned work behind a screen that hid them from the street. The empty envelope with the name and address of a Boston woman was found near the door of the post office on Main street after the bandits left. Police and agents of various federal bureaus were seeking the woman. At the same time a check-up by their numbers was being made of the oxygen oxy-gen tanks used in "boiling out" the big safe. But for the dilatory response at Washington to the request of Postmaster Post-master George W. Burgess here for a new safety vault, the robbery, one of the most Caring in post-office history, his-tory, might have been averted. Six weeks ago Postmaster Burgess renewed re-newed his request for a new and adequate ade-quate vault, but there was no response. re-sponse. Post Office Inspectors J. J. Breslin, C. H. Pendleton and C. S. Anderson were busy here Investigating and gathering up loose ends in the robbery. rob-bery. They established that $55,000 in negotiable ne-gotiable bonds in one of the three safes for delivery to a local brokerage house had been taken, together with several consignments of currency for local banks, registered mails and stamps, the total being about $250,000. |