AMERICAN BANDITS
FREIGHT TRAIN HELD UP. QUANTITY OF SILK STOLEN. (Pres* Assoolatlon —By Telegraph—Copyright, j NEW YORK, December 14. Fifteen bandits with six automobiles held up a freight train on the Reading railway near Langhorne, Pennsylvania, stealing silk worth £IO,OOO. The train crew opened fire with their revolvers, but the bandits replied with rifles and went on with the robbery. Another train arrived, but the combined crews were unable to wrest the booty from the robbers, who disappeared in the darkness. Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20283, 16 December 1927, Page 11
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