Tube Station Officials Clubbed
(N Z P A -Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, May 15. Four masked payroll gangsters struck at the heart of London's underground rail network yesterday and escaped ion a train with about £2OOO. They attacked in the bustling
station 200 ft beneath Leicester 1 Square. The raiders bought i 4ii tickets. Once past the ticket . ’ ccTector they slipped on ■ masks and burst into an office I 1 where wage packets were 1 I being prepared for the sta-; . tion staff of about 100. Three i ! station officials grappled with i
the raiders who, armed with iron bars, grabbed the money. As the raiders fled on a train which rumbled into the station the three officials were on their way to hospital—one on a stretcher. A relief stationmaster was detained with a fractured skull.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 13
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