Bandits Rob Train
CALIFORNIAN SENSATION MACHINE-GUN ON MOTOR [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Nov. 9, 5.30 p.mA message from Oakland (California) A mesage from Oakland (California) states that five armed bandits held up a southern Pacific passenger train at Noble (California) and stole a undetermined amount of cash and valuable mail, reported to be worth 50,01 | del Jars in currency. There were 15 bags of registered mail. A man boarded the train as a passenger at Berkeley and forced the crew to stop the train at Nobel, 8 small settlement, where four other men from an automobile appeared and aided iji tho guarding of the train while the first man rifled the mail and baggage in the cars. The robbers were heavily armed I i used a motor carrying two mounted machine guns. Heavy guards have been set on the roads in the vicinity in an endeavour to apprehend tho bandits.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 7
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