ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 7

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

EXPRESS TRAIN "HELD UP.'-« \

BY ABMED DESPERADOES,

LARGE AMOUNT STOLEN.

By Telegraph—Press Association— (Received September 15, 9.10 p.m.) Sydney, September 15. A daring crime '-e, reported from Broken Hill. On Sunday night, two masked and aimed men "held up" the Broken Hill to Adelaide express between Sulphide Street Station and Railway Town Station and got away with two cash boxes, containing between £100 and £150 in notes, geld, and silver.

The distance between the platforms is only a mile. The "hold-up" was cleverly planned. The Silverton Tramway Company is accustomed to send large amounts from Sulphide Street to Railway Town on Sunday nights. The company controls the line from Broken Hill to the border.

A ticket clerk named McGuire deposited the cash boxes in the guard's van, and 'McGuire, the guard, named Finlayson, and an assistant guard named Hawee remained in the van to look after them. The express departed at 8.30, and had gone a distance of two chains when the two masked men jumped aboard, crawled along the footboard to the van. smashed the windows with an iron bar, and presented revolvers at the occupants of the van, yelling : "Hands up." One desperado remarked to the other: "Keep them covered while I get in. If you have any rot from them, ehcot them*"

The robber scrambled in, hurled the cash-boxes out of the window, and got out himself. Then the pair 'imped off the tram, which was going slowly, picked up the boxes, and rushed through an adjacent wood yard.

A lady passenger saw them disappear in the darkness. All this happened almost in the town. A porter eaw the robbers leave and pursued them fruitlessly. The police immediately scoured the district, but so far without success.