DARING TRAIN ROBBERY
BY MASKED MEN. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 5.5 p.m., July 2nd: NEW YORK, "July 1. The Erie mail train was held up by twelve armed and masked men. The mail and express cars were rifled. The mail clerk and conductor wore ho r .h shot, tho former fatally. The robbers tied telegraph poles across the track and stopped the train. Alany of the passengers alighted, thinking it was a collision. They stampeded aboard when tho robbers fired upon them.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14483, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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82DARING TRAIN ROBBERY Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14483, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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