Cave Relics Possible Link With 1941 Payroll Robbery
(10 a.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 1. The police yesterday searched a cave where a hiker’s dog led his master to what are believed to be relics of the Yanderra payroll outrage of seven years ago. The relics consist of a Commonwealth coin bag. another bag with seven rusty ' skeleton keys, a railway detonator, several pieces of rag with what appear to be bloodstains and an envelope dated 1941. On December 8, 1941, a railway pay car containing £11,232 for the payment of railway employees between Campbelltown and Gouibourn was blown up near Yanderra, 50 miles from Sydney. ■ The explosion, which hurled the car 40ft. down an embankment, killed three railwaymen.
The cave is 3i miles from the scene of the tragedy. The police believe that the bandits may have hidden in (lie cave and divided the loot there.
A reward of £ISOO offered at the time of the robbery is still unclaimed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22808, 1 December 1948, Page 7
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