The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-16
NEARLY S25O,OOO
 IS ISRECOVERED AND
 ONE BANDIT DEAD
Amount of Loot Taken In Dal- las Robbery Not Determined and Four Robbers Are
 Still at Large
By Associated Press

Dallas, Tex, January 15j--Report of the recovery of nearly $250000 in Lib erty bonds and currency and the ac- cidental death of one of the bandits tonight marked the police investtga- tion of last nights sensational rob bery of sub postoffice station here The amount of loot taken by the six robbers had not been determined. and four of the band remain a liberty
 W. s. Scrivner, one of the band who was injured when the bandit car overturned on a road near Fort Worth three hours after the robbery was com mitted, led Dallas officers to cache eight miles north of Fort Worth late today. Here $200.000 in Liberty bonds and $46,000 in currency was found in two registered mail sacks, according to local police.
 Scriyner, who was pinned under beneath the wrecked tomobile, was arrested by Fort Worth police and brought here early today. Subsequently he made a complete confession. police said, duplicating master mind' be- hind the robbery whose arrest, detec- tives say will cause sensation.
 ONE OUTLAW KILLED
 Pat Murphy, alias Rufus Clemons, alias w. w. Matthews another mem
 
 when the bandit car" turned turtle near Fort Worth. According to the al legged confession of Scrivner, he and Murphy were returning to Fort Worth after having cached the loot following wild night ride from Dallas. The four other members of the band had taken refuge in house at Fort Worth
 Five Dallas detectives returned to Fort Worth with Scrivner today on
 4 AL. l. comrades hiding place. The house was found unoccupied, but indications were that it had been hurriedly vacated. The detectives then were directed by Scrivner to the cache where the bonds and money were recovered.
 Search for the missing four. whose identity, police say, is known, was con tinued in Dallas and Fort Worth to. night. Local authorities predicted sensational developments.
 In addition to the approxima tely s246,000 recovered near Fort Worth more than s4,000 of the stolen currency was found in a house in South Dalla. oday. Police searched the house o: the strength of Scrivners alleged con. fession
 EXTRA PRECAUTIONS
 Extra precautions were taken tc guard Scrivner here and on his trip tc Fort Worth today. While outwardly the situation was quiet, feeling was intense over the shooting of three pos tai employees who offered no resistance curing robbery of the substation. Nons were critically injured, however, ac cording to physicians. Scrivner in hi' alleged confession, declared nervous. ness on the part of one of the bandits caused the robber accidentally to dis charge his pistol and that tft entire band then fired more than 20 shots.
 Both Scrivner and Murphy or Gle mons, as he was known to local DO lice, were notorious characters. Scriv ner escaped from a Texas penitentiar, last December 2S. He had been sen fenced to serve fifty years for partici patton in payroll robbery here tw, years ago. Murphy also had served prison term and only recently was re leased. He escaped from the peniten tiary two years ago and was recap tured at Little Rock Ark, after sensational gun fight with police there