SIX MASKED ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN NEAR CHICAGO AND PILLAGE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 7

SIX MASKED ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN NEAR CHICAGO AND PILLAGE

[By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Auat and N.Z Cable Association.] (Received Sunday 7.0 p.m.) NEW YORK Ferb. 25. Six masked robbers this morning captured a train in a suburban district of Chicago and took complete possession of the train, overawing the crow and seventy-five passengers in true ‘‘wild west” style. In twelve minutes they had blown the safe open in the mail car and secured a hundred thousand dollars currency, and escaped with it in an automobile. The robbers appeared alonside the train when it stopped to let off a passenger at a station fourteen miles outside Chicago. Two members of the band went to the engine and held up the engineer and fireman. Two others forced the r) minder of the crew into the rear car, and the remaining two hammered on the locked door of the baggage car until the dork appeared, when a volley of shots was fired, but nobody was hit. These two then dynamited the door of the mail coach, overpowered the clerk and obtained the loot, nftor which the whole six quietly but speedily disappeared.