BANDITS’ HAUL
DARING TRAIN ROBBERY BAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 25. Last Saturday, near Rawlings (Wyoming!, Iwo young men, passengers on (lie Union Pacific, west-bound train, walked leisurely into the'- mail ear. locking Ike door behind them, and bound the mail clerks. They then ruiisrickod the registered sacks, and dropped off while the train was approaching a still ion. from where a waiting motor car whisked them away. At first it looked like a small job. but, to-day, officials tabulated the losses and w ore-forced to admit that the men escaped with £62.000 in cash and negotiable documents.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 10
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