Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-16
Special to @fimes-Repubncan

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i''"' HIk"C OF Il fltied pan
pouch one OF the ten stolen from the
I Burlington fast mail Saturday night.
and which arc ,noo,r 90 h.,.a COW
tofned b,Ir r,iui.. ,.r
'0'','' ''"" gwen II'e government or
/ fciaIs clue 10 work upon. The gov
ernment agents are now convinced
that Merl Phillips. confessed member
/ of the robhcr gang, has made niIn-
/ erous false statements and that he is
holding back valuable information.
BIGGEST Robbery Of Kind
one member Of tho nortv or GOV
eInment official. here investipatinc
the mail car rol.f.fry TODAY deoIa rod
1t his opinion that il worI1 nro,-e tho
bigrest rohb.,,,. ,.f ,l,,.- lyira oo,,r,i+
ted in tho Irni+ad Gta,oe ,,i+t,i, the
past twentv-rlva ,aars IN +his his
associates READILY acrccd
As details OF the robbery sre slow
~Iy being deveIopcd the officials st{II
incline TO the opinion that while II
was committed bv three vorfne mon
somewhere there 's q nas+er mind
who planned il all. DID that master
mind have advance Information re-
garding the shiDrncnt Of government
bonds and currency?
According 10 the confession Of NTorl
philHDs. oO-year.-oId. railway mail
clerk under arrest 10 = federal n1-f
sonor. ana as given out by the gov
ernment officials the robbery yvas
not only inpapio,sJv Dl7n-.aa mt
cIcyarlv exacutcd
PhiIlips' alleged statement ts 10 +he
effect tl,at he roarnI,- acted ,s 1oo1,-
ont for his nails. that Ha rDde on the
engine from The Trnion Pacific +rans-
fer. +o F'o,rteertb stron+ ,vhera tho
fast mail had TO stoD for the Illinois
Central crossine.: that the moment
fhS train stonned, his nails driving =
Nash car drove aIonrsid,. the mail
train AS the train stouned the glass
in the mail car door was smashed
thc iron chain re1eosad ard tho train
Honterpd Ten Sacks of tba 12O reois-
tered sacks of mail in the car were
thrown OFF one Of which dronned IN
the ground and was left. the robbers
! cscanfne with the other nine sacks
! The train 0nlv stonned lone enoupb
10 get <tba signal "procee1 and the
robbers therefore had "a work fast.
lob Planned in Omaha
pbiIuns' statement to the federal
on,borities Is further stated IN do
c,ora +b,+ ba yos +o n,eo+ bis two
n,Is ar ,ivon noint. that ba went
there and waited two honrs He he
1icves he was double crossed
,rba iob was MANNED in an Omaha
rooI boll Il 10 stated phi1Iins ia
s.Id ~ b,ye .;ven tho Officials tho
,,or,,o of his Two ,o1s ,,a oo,,,
,Io+o dasori,,+io, of +ha,,, b,,+ savs
he docs NOT know where thew lived
conoe fao+uras of his confession ore
so,d +o ranuire exn1anotion .nd
e,,,4lo,, son,a+iono, ipcidonts .ra not
u,,,il,el,,
NarIa phi1Iins hoe Of u,r, hrotbor
who is also emn,oved in tho rail
| uav mail servicn ont of tbis cit1
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