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RAILWAY PAY CAR BANDITS BOMB TRAIN TWO KILLED; ONE HURT (Reed. Dec. 9, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Bandits yesterday bombed a railway pay car near Mittagong and caused the violent deaths of the driver, Mr. George Randall, aged 50, and the guard, Mr. Alfred Philpott, aged 52, and serious injury to the paymaster, Mr. Frederick Walker, aged 54. The pay car, which carried £9,000 in cash for distribution to railway employees, was practically blown to pieces and the permanent way was severely damaged. Two men wearing shorts were observed running from the scene after the outrage while a considerable sum of bank notes and coin littered the whole area.
The police theory is that the bandits apparently intended that the bomb should explode ahead of the car and then rob the paymaster, but the explosion occurred right under the front wheels.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 5
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