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DARING ATTEMPT BY ROBBERS. SHOTS EXCHANGED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. NEW YORK, 26th January. Masked robbers boarded an electric car on the outskirts of Santa Monica, a fashionable watering-place near Los Angeles, California. They fired bullets through the "oof, and ordered the motoiman to secure the jewels and money of the twenty-two passengers. One passenger fired, wounding a robber, vho replied. The bullet pierced the passenger's coat, but dropped harmlessly into his pocket. • The desperadoes fled, but a Sheriff's posse later captured the wounded robber. The bullet had perforated both his cheeks. A second passenger was snot in Lhe chest during the robbers' first fusillade.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1911, Page 7
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