CALLOUS BANDITS
EIGHT MEN SHOT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 13, 12.20 p.m. NEW YORK*, Oct, 12. Edward Barker, auditor of the Euro-.. Milling Co., and eight other men were lined up and shot dead bv bandits, who wrecked the Chihuahua''train'.in Mexico forty* miles south of Juarezo on Friday, securing £3OOO . in loot. Barker and - all the members, cf the tram crew were marched to the rear of the train, stood against., an embankment, and each shot .through the. forehead with explosive bullets, which terribly mutilated their heads. Juan Medrano, assistant roadmaster, left a' blood-stained note to his. wife saying: •‘Go to your mother. T am about to die. Two of the bandits are be- ’ lieved to be Americans. —Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 October 1924, Page 5
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