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Confession Claimed in Major Railway Mail Heist
Merl Phillips, a Burlindon youth, admitted involvement in a $millionscale railroad mail robbery near Council Bluffs. Earl Phillips, his twin, was arrested earlier. both were railroad mail sorters. Merl said accomplices used a car at Central crossing and stole nine of thirty pouches from a storage car, with one pouch later recovered.
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Merl Phillips
Bluffs
Serip
Oma
Ana
Medina
Doug- Wine
Phillips
Stu
Liberty
Millons
Philips
Council Bluffs
Eleventh Avenue
Fourteenth
Sixteenth Streets
Central Crossing
Sinki
Twelfth Street
Fifth Avenue
Union Pacific Transfer
Ear! Phillips
Earl Phillips
Merl
Federal
Earl
Red Oak
Cornell Bluffs
Altho
Tan
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Omaha
Burlington
Union Pacific