TRANSVAAL TRAIN ROBBERY.
SEVEN YEARS 1 PENAL SERVITUDE fpRKSS ASSOCIATION.] CAPETOWN, 26ih January. Two men implicated in the train robbery in NoveinW lost year, when robbers secured £10,000 in specie, (ho pioperty of the Staudard Bank, hiwo been sontencod to sovon years' ponnl servitude. Tho robbory was committed ns the train was ascending au incline between Piolorsbtirj? and Mylstroom, It. wn» first reported tunt two men cntarcd tho\an, overpowered tho escort, nnd stole tho specie, but a man who was aetbig as escort subsequently confessed that tho robbory was prearranged. He was appointed to throw out tho apecio at » certain spot to an accomplice, who wns to bury it until they had an opportunity of dividing it.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1904, Page 5
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117TRANSVAAL TRAIN ROBBERY. Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1904, Page 5
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