N.S.W. TRAIN ROBBERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 5

N.S.W. TRAIN ROBBERY

PROBLEM FOR DETECTIVES BOX FOUND 200 MILES AWAY SYDNEY, April 9. Detectives are confronted with a difficult task in finding the bandits who held up the Aludgee train near midnight and escaped with over £4OOO in notes and „ silver, representing a portion of the railwaymen’s pay. Gar and cart wheel tracks were discovered near the scene to-day. They led into the bush, where a wire fence was „ cup apparently by somebody" anxious to avoid detection. The police in the Penrith district came upon two men camped on the bank of the 'Nepean River. Both were arrested, one for having an unlicensed revolver, and the other was charged with vagrancy. Both were remanded. A telegram received from Ilinnaway, beyond Aludgee, 200 miles from the scene of the train hald-up, states that a railway cash box identical with the one stolen has been found on the side of the road and is being sent back to Sydney. It was possible for the bandits to cover this distance by car between the time of the robbery and the hour at which the cash box was found.

NOT A SINGLE CLUE

STOLEN BAG CONTAINED £IB,OOO (Received April 10, 11 a.m.) •SYDNEY, April 10. An all-day search by detectives in the vicinity of the Aludgee train robbery failed to reveal a single clue. The tracks discovered yesterday had no connection with the bandits, and. the amazing getaway of the thieves is puzzling the police. The stolen bag contained cash to the value of about £IB,OOO, £13,000 of which was in cheques, which have been cancelled.