DARING HOLD-UP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 April 1930, Page 5

DARING HOLD-UP

TRAIN ROBBERY IN AUSTRALIA

MOST SENSATIONAL IN HISTORY

BANDITS SECURE £4500 /United Press Association—By Eloctrio Tolegraph^Copyrißht) (Received 9th April, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The most desperate and sensational train robbery in the history of Australia occurred late last night near Glenbrook station, on the mountains' line. Two masked armed men hold up the guard and escort in the mail van of the Mudgee express, rifled the mails, and decamped with £4SOV The guard. E. 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 a bag containing 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 the bush. The whole affair had been carefully planned. The train was just leaving Emu Plains when the bandits jumped aboard.

Upon the arrival of the express at Glendbrook_ every mountain police station was informed and an intensive search is now in operation. Squires, who is badly hurt, and the escorj; are unable to give a description of the men's faces so well were .they masked.