TRAIN TRAGEDY
SEQUEL TO A HOLD-UP. TWO YOUNG ROBBERS MAY DIE. THRASHED BY THE PASSENGERS (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 25. A message from El Paso (Texas) states that two youths, attired in “ten-gallon” hats, chaps and hoots, boarded the Southern Pacific passenger train, eliciting smiles from their fellow travellers, who eyed them obviously as tenderfoot cowboys, but amusement turned to consternation when the.masqueraders herded the train crew and passengers together at the point of the gun. The robbers were later disclosed to be tyros. They nervously shot dead a trainman when he made a- false move, whereupon the passengers leaped on the youths and so severely thrashed them that both are likely to die.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 40, 26 November 1937, Page 5
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