AUDACIOUS BANDIT.
Single-Handed Hold-Up Of Canadian Express. SUBSTANTIAL HAUL. VANCOUVER, November 27. A. youthful bandit wrecked a Union Pacific passenger train by pulling the spikes from sojne of the rails at Cheyenne. Single-handed the youth then made the 40 passengers line up while he robbed them. He secured £1000 in cash and also jewels.
The daring youth informed his victims that he had a wife and two children. The railway company would not give him work so he was going to take what he wanted. He then placed a revolver against the ribs of one of the passengers. Nobody was injured when the five coaches on the train were derailed, but the bill for repairs will exceed £10,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 7
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