EXPRESS TRAIN OUTRAGE
■ . " . "' m' SAFE BLOWN UP, AND A LARGE SUM STOLEN. • Five thousand pounds in gold, which was being cent from San- Francisco to the National Bank at Taft, California, wae stolen on , 9th December, while being conveyed by train to that city. The robbery was carried out in a bold and expeditious manner by four men, who, at is thought, boarded tho ' train at Bakerefield.' Shortly after leaving that station tile inert forced their' way into, the 'exprees car, and, beating the exprees mtosenger and hie AfiaistaHt insensible, proceeded to dynamite the safe. Tho robbery wav carried .put while tho ,train wa> in rapid motion, nor did the robbers stop the train to make their escape. The four men divided the booty between them, and when the train, elowed down at the next junction they dropped off and disappeared in a neighbouring foreet, where, it is believed, \hey had confederates awaiting them.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 15
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154EXPRESS TRAIN OUTRAGE Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 15
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