The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-18
CHICA CO MAIL TRU OK
ROBBED DURING NIGHT
POLICE HAVE NO CLUL.
POSTAL INSPECTORS ARE OF THE
OPINION THAT If WAS AN
"INSIDE JOB; LOSS Is
NOT ESTIMATED

Chicago, Jan. IS. - Five youthful
bandits held up n United States mail
truck at the Union Station here early
today and escaping in an automobile
with IL sacks Of mail, 10 of which
contained registered matter. Police
say that the pouches contained part
Of a federal reserve bank money ship
ment.
The bandits surprised three postal
employees guarding the pouches, fore
ing them at the point of guns.
Three bandits worked swiftly and
the robbery was accomplished in a
few minutes.
The regular mail was composed
solely Of city collections, the police
say.
The registered mail bags were sup
posed to contain currency and bonds
whose value cannot yet be estimated
One of the postal employees said that
only n few minutes after they had
arrived at the station with their
truck. the bandit car dashed up. The
pOlltt utlitNt NNt lOppNAg NtA~o dit
side job as the bandits seemed to
have knowledge Of the bank ship
ment as we'll as the time the truck
would arrive and the number Of men
guarding II.
Thomas Carter. Richard J. Sliney
and Phillip Cahill. postal employees.
said the five men, none of whom APP
peared to be more than 20 years old,
wore black masks. They carried out
the robbery in such short time that
the attention OF wntchman and
railway foreman working nearby was
not attracted until they were speed
ing away in their motor car with 1?
pouches.
Carter, who drove the mail truck.
said he believed the bandit car fol-
lowed him from the postoffice to the
station. The alarm was Immediately
sent 10 the federal building and the
city detective bureau.
sovefal squads Of officers were on
the trail OF the robbers within q few
minutes
The mail truck had been backed
70 the curb In front oc an elevator
used to deliver the mail to the base
ment OF the station and stood about
2j feet north oc Monroe street IN
Canal street The bandit car came
from the west, turning into Canal
street from Monroe moment after
the truck had been parked. Its
arrival wns timed To nicely and az
II slowed up opposite the truck, three
OF the outlaws leaped from II and ran
across the street.
The trio faced seven postal and
railway employees and in the back
ground were late freQucntcrs OF the
station. including several newspaper
wagon drivers and taxlcab chauffeufs'
Were armed, do exactly as we
say, said the leader OF the bandits
He ordered one of the mail handlers
TO remain on the sidewalk 10 avert
suspicion and sent the other men into
the truck TO pick out the registered
sacks. Meanwhile the outlaws auto
mobile had been driven north in Can
al street and turned around. II drew
alongside the truck as the victims
completed their unwelcomcd tasks.
Throw the stacks into our machine"
ordered the leader Of the robbers and
ns the railroad and mail employees
complied, he added
"Much Obliged. SO long"
IIc leapcd into the touring car with
his accompliccs and the car started.
"Stop that machine It's n hold-up,'
cried one Of the railroad mon. But
the leader Of the robbers brnndished a
big pistol and pursuit stopped. IL
was the only sight OF firearms re-
ported to the police.
The robbers machine swcrved sharp
Is into Monroe street. sped west for
one block. turned sharply to tho
south on Clinton street, and vanished.
The leader Of the robbers was de-
scribod as about 20 years old. five
feet. six inches tall, of stock build
and clad In an army ovcrcoat, and
a black cap.
Postal authorities early today we're
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