BANDITS IN ROCKIES
MAIL TRAIN HELD TJP;
ONE OF CREW KILLED
SALT LAKE. CITY, February 3.
Eight bandits armed with revolvers and'a machine-gun boarded the Denver arid' Rio Grande mail, train tonight, 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, suspicious at the train stopping,' doused the lights and 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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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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94BANDITS IN ROCKIES Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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