BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN
Denver Rio Grande Express
MAIL CLERKS OPEN FIRE (Received February 4, 8.10 p.m.) Salt Lake City, February 3. Eight bandits armed With revolvers and a machine-gun boarded' the Den-ver-Rio Grande mail train to-night, forced the driver to stop the train, drove the crew back to the mail van •and ordered them to direct the mail clerks to open the van. Meanwhile the clerks,, suspicions at ■the train stopping, doused the lights iam.l opened fire on‘the bandits, who ■escaped in a lorry. One of the train ■crew was killed while running back to flag an oncoming train.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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