TRAIN ROBBERY.
EXCHANGE OF SHOTS,
WOUNDED ROBBER CAPTURED
Press Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, Thursday. Masked robbers boarded au electric car in the outskirts of Santa Monica. They fired bullets through the roof, and ordered the motor-man to secure the jewels and money of twenty-two passengers. One passenger fired, wouuding a robber. The lattei replied, but the bullet pierced the passenger's coat and dropped harmlessly into his pocket. The desperadoes tied. A sheriff's posse later captured the wounded robber. A bullet has perforated both his cheeks. A second passenger was shot in the chest, during the robbers' first fusilade.
[Santa Monica is a village of California, in the county of Los Augelos. ]
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 9895, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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110TRAIN ROBBERY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 9895, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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