The Producers News

STUDENTS HOLD UP MISSOULA P. O.
AUTHORITIES RECOVER $25,000 FROM HIDING PLACE WHEN YOUTHS ARE ARRESTED AND ADMIT GUILT.

Missoula, Jan. 31.-Robert Ackler, 19, Butte; R. A. Heller, 21, Boston, and Bernard Quesnell, 21, Kalispell, students of the University of Montana here, are under arrest charged with robbing the Missoula postoffice Sunday night of $25,000 in currency.

The money had been consigned from Spokane to the Missoula Trust company.

Heller has been acting as substitute mail clerk at the postoffice. He was at the postoffice when the currency arrived yesterday. Late last night Heller, who then was off shift, returned to the postoffice. About 1:30 Ackler and Quesnell were admitted to the postoffice by Heller, it is charged and Ackler and Quesnell, masked, presented guns and bound Heller and another clerk, B. A. Hollensteiner, and escaped with the $25,000 in currency.

REVEAL MONEY CACHE

Heller's suspicious actions caused his arrest. Ackler and Quesnell, roommates of Heller, were next arrested. Two guns were found in a closet in their room. The three confessed according to federal authorities, and told that they had secreted the money under a bridge over the Missoula river. The money was recovered. The three youths are being held. They are juniors at the University.