BANDITS FOILED
MAIL TRAIN STOPPED CLERKS OPEN FIRE. Received Feb. 4, 11.5 p.m. SALT LAKE CITY’, Feb. 3. Eight bandits armed with revolvers ano a machine-gun. boarded the DenverRio Grande mail train to-night and forced the driver to stop the train. 'They drove the crew back to Iho mail van, and ordered them to direct the mail clerks to open the van. Meanwhile, the clerks, suspicious at the train slopping, doused tl.e lights and opened Pre on the bandits, who escaped in a One of the crew was killed while rnnning back to flag an oncoming
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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96BANDITS FOILED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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