MAIL TRAIN HELD UP.
YOUTHS' DESPERATE DEED
GREAT HAUL OF MONEY,
Press Association-By, Telegraph-Copyrigat Rreeived 11.45 p.m., October- let.
ST. PETERSBURG. October 1.
A gang of thirty youths, by mfans of revolvers and bombs, cap'.ured th& War-saw-St. Petersburg mail train at Uvzzany, by overpowering the pas.-i-ngt rs. officiate, and a guard of six soldiers. Thfry robbed the mail of a. sum which is variously intimated at. bxvrein £SCOO and'£2s,ooo.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13714, 2 October 1908, Page 5
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69MAIL TRAIN HELD UP. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13714, 2 October 1908, Page 5
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