TRAIN ROBBERY

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 9

TRAIN ROBBERY

AUSTRALIAN BANDITS. HAUL OF OVER £4OOO. SENSATIONAL AFFAIR. (United Press Association.—By Electric Teelgraph.—Copyright.) Received April 9, 11 a.m. SYDNEY, April 8. The most desperate and sensational train robbery in the history of Australia occurred late last night near Glenbrook station. Two masked armed men held up Mr E. Squires, the guard, and escort in the mail van of the Mudgee express, rifled the mails and decamped with £4500. Mr Squires was knocked senseless, and while- one of the bandits held the escort at bay the other ransacked the mail bags and bundles until he discovered the bag containing the money. The robbers then held the guard and escort until the express slowed down near a tunnel. Running to the door of the van the men leaped into the darkness with their haul and disappeared in tho bush. The whole affair had been carefully planned. Tho train was just leaving Emu Plains when the bandits jumped aboard. Upon the arrival of the express at Glenbrook, every police station was informed and an intensive search is now' in operation. Mr Squires, who is badly hurt, and the escort are unable to give a description of the men’s faces, so well were they masked.