TRAIN HELD UP.
THREE PASSENGERS SHOT.
THIEVES GET AWAY WITH BOOTY
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(Received August 11, 2 p.m.) DELHI, Aug. 10.
It is reported from Kakori, near Lucknow, that four armed and 1 masked dacoits held up the guards on a moving passenger train at the revolver point, pulled the com muni eat ion cord, and stopped the train. The assailants were joined by sixteen men, also masked', and r ifled the brakevan; then decamped with .cash chests, after starting the train. A Gurkha passenger, while arming himself, was shot dead, also a Maliommedan and a European passenger. The latter was shot while attempting to come out of a compartment. An armed contingent of railway police has been despatched in pursuit of the robbers
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 12
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