A DARING ROBBERY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19898, 16 September 1913, Page 5

A DARING ROBBERY.

EXPRESS TRAIN HELD UP

QUICK WORK BY TWO MEN

(United Press A»ssociation. —Copyright.;

SYDNEY, Sent

A daring crime took piace at Broken Hill on Sunday night. Two masked and armed men held up the Broken Hill to Adelaide express between Sulphide St. station and the railway town station. They got away with two cashboxes containing; between £100 and £150 in notes, gold and silver. ', The distance between the platforms is only a mile. The hold-up was cleverly planned. The Silverton Tramway Co. is accustomed to send large amounts from Sulphide Street to the Railway Town station on Sunday nights. The company controls the line from Broken Hill to the border.

Ticket clerk McGuire deposited the cash boxes in the guard's van, and: McGuire, Guard Finlayson and assistantguard Hawes remained <n the van. The express departed at 8.30, and had gone two cliains when two masked men jumped aboard and crawled along the footboard, to the van, smashed the windo w® with an iron bar and presented revolvers. They yelled "Hards up." One desperado remarked to the other "Keep them covered while I get in. If you have any rot from them, shoot." He scrambled in 1; hurled the cash boxes out of the window, and got out. Then the pair jumped off the train, which was going slowly; They picked up the boxes and. rushed through an adjacent wood-yard. A lady passenger saw them disappear in the darkness. All this happened almost in town. A porter caw the robbers leave and jumped off and pursued them, but fruitlessly. The police immediately scoured the district, but unsuccessfully.