£BOOO HAUL
DARING TRAIN ROBEERY BANDITS HAD MACHINE-GUNS RAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9. Five masked bandits, reminiscent of the old-time Californian highwaymen, but working with the coolness and precision and the arsenal of the modern gangsters, robbed a Southern Pacific train of £BOOO. The train left Oakland early in the morning for Tracy, carrying the money for the steel works pay-roll. One robber evidently boarded the train at Berkeley and walked through and over ihe ears, until he appeared behind the engineer and firemen .just as the train entered a small station called Nobel.
The engineer, Lemory, saw a large motor car alongside the track, and just as be called to the fireman: “See that big inaehiiiAgun on that auto,” lie turned to gaze into t hi* barrels of a sawn-oIT shotgun, held by the robber who was already aboard.
When the train came to a standstill four masked figures leaped from the motor car. They set up a second machine gun on tin* station platform, commanding the entire* length of the I rain.
Within five minutes they had secured their booty, lifted their “artillery” aboard the car, and disappeared, without a shot being fired.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17425, 25 November 1930, Page 7
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194£8000 HAUL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17425, 25 November 1930, Page 7
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