BANDITS HOLD UP SOUTHERN PACIFIC
TRAIN DRIVER WOUNDED.
MAILS RIFLED TO TUNE OF 130,000 DOLLARS. United Press Association — By Electril Telegraph—Copyright. ( Received Sunday, 11 p.m. NEW YORK, Juno 22. News from Martinez (California) states that . two ‘ robbers held up a Southern Pacific train, shot and woundod tho engine-driver and escaped with loot which may amount, to 130,000 dollars. Tho bandits used a machine-gun mounted on an automobile and fusiladed the engineer when he declined to stop the train. They then held the crew at bay whilo they systematically went through the mail sacks.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6943, 24 June 1929, Page 7
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