FRENCH RAILWAY ROBBERS.
MIDNIGHT ATTACKS ON STATIONS. WANTON DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. [INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, April 30. A gang of desperate criminals cnt credit he railway station in Versailles. France, at mkliiight, and attempted to force open the automatic machines on the nlatforms. - The noise they made aroused the officials, but when the latter came on the scene thev were murderously attacked by the robbers, who made off after firing their revolvers at the railwav men. , , . The marauders then made their way to the next station. Here they found themselves unable to gain an entry into the station buildings. In their ra cre at being thus foiled, they smash-etfevc-rv thing oil the platform, changed the "points, and then decamped.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3827, 9 May 1913, Page 5
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119FRENCH RAILWAY ROBBERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3827, 9 May 1913, Page 5
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