TWO CLERKS ATTACKED
TRAGEDY IN A TRAIN. ASSAILANT KILLS ONE ESCAPES WITH £174. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.45 p.m. to-day. PERTH, June 4. While two bank clerks were taking money from the suburb of May lands t« Perth by train one of them, J. R. Greviile, aged 22, was suddenly shot in the head and abdomen by a third man in the same compartment. The man then tried to shoot the other clerk, Douglas Favis, but his revolver jammed. He hit Favis heavily on the iiead with the butt end of it. When the train arrived at Perth the man jumped out on the wrong side of the carriage, taking the money, amounting to £174, with him. The signalman chased him ftir some distance, but lie eventually made his escape. Greviile was | with all haste to the hospital, but died an hour later. Favis was only .-lightly injured.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 June 1926, Page 9
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