DARING TRAIN ROBBERS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2026, 16 September 1913, Page 5

DARING TRAIN ROBBERS.

AT BROKEN HILL, A HOLDUP. MEN GET AWAY. ProH Awn—By Telegraph—Copyright Received 11.20 p.m.

Sydney, Last Night, A daring orime was committed at Broken Hill on Sunday nißht. Two armei maskei men held up tie Broken Hill to Adelaide express between Sulphide street station and the Railway Town station anl got away with two cash boxes [containing between £IOO and £l5O in notes, gold, and silver Toe distance between the platforms is only a mile. The hold up was cleverly planned. The Silverton Tramway Coy. is accustomed to sen I large amounta from the Sulphide street to Railway Town on Sun ay nights and tfre company cont ols the line from Broken Hill to the border, The ticket clerk, McGuire, deposited the boxes in the guard's van and McGuire, the gnard Finlayson, ana the assistant guard Haws, remained in the van.

The express departed at 830 and had gone two chains when two masked men jumped aboard and crawled along the footboard of the van, smashed the win ows with an ir n bar an» presented revolvers and yelled: "Hands Up!" One desperado remarked to t v e other: "Keep them covered, while I got in. If you have any rot from them, shoot." He scramble i in and hurled the cash boxes out the window and got out

Then the pair jumped off the train, which was going slowly, picket up the boxes and rusned through an adjaoent wo d' yar-.1. A lady passenger saw them disappear in the darkness. All this happened almost in the town. A porter saw the robbers leave and jumpe' after and pursue J them, bnt fruitless.

Toe police immediately scoured he district but unsuccessfully.