MAIL ROBBER HOLDS UP NEW YORK TRAIN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 9

MAIL ROBBER HOLDS UP NEW YORK TRAIN.

BANDIT GETS AWAY WITH £2OOO BANK PACKAGE FROM CARNEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Postal and police officers were combing Long Island and New York City to-day for the bandit who on Tuesday night held up tho mail clerk of a Long Island passenger train and escaped with £2OOO in currency mailed by the First- National Bank of Bellmore. Two men are now awaiting execution in connection with a previous robbery in widen 412,000 was taken from the Bellmore Bank and during which Ernest Whitman, a bond salesman, was killed. As the train was pulling out of tho Bellmore station the mail clerk found himself confronted by a man with a handkerchief over his face, who stuck A gun in his ribs and ordered the clerk to open the registered mail pouch. Ho picked out the bank package so easily that the clerk reported the man must have known of tho shipment. The robber dropped off into the darkness as the train slowed down for the next station, just a few minutes after leaving Bellmore. Tho police said it was the first train hold-up near New York City in many years.