MAIL TRAIN ROBBED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16623, 16 April 1928, Page 12

MAIL TRAIN ROBBED

DARING CHICAGO < .'HOLD-UP" CHICAGO, March 2. Using homely, old-fashioned methods, six neatly masked robbers yesterday '' did their bit " in maintaining Chicago's reputation by holding up a Grand Trunk mail train nine miles south of the city, and, after knocking a mail clerk senseless, getting away with £27,000. This revival of nineteenth-century melodrama was staged at the suburb of Evergreen Park, where a similar "affair, occurred just a year ago—after the train had been " flagged-" at the station. The procedure was brief, simple, and efficient. The result was that 100 passengers were terrorised, the mail clerk was maltreated, ami two bags containing the payroll of a steel company were transi erred from the mail car to a speedy automobile, which conveyed six bandits without loss of time to a destination which is still unknown to the police. When the obedient engineer had heeded the flag and brougnt the train to a standstill the waiting band of desperadoes set to work with systematic deliberation. Two of them, .kept the engineer and fireman idle by means of sawed-off shot-guns, while another pan 1 drove the remainder of the crow into a rear car, and the remaining couple expeditiously dynamited the locked door of the mail coach, as well as the door of the safe. After a dozen minutes of lock-smash-ing and holding up, the sextet bid adieu to the embarrassed passengers and crew, and stepping into their touring car, sped away, to be seen no more.