MASKED MAIL ROBBERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13434, 22 July 1911, Page 7

MASKED MAIL ROBBERS.

Bordeaux is excited over a curious mail robbery, alleged to have been committed by masked men, who held up a driver on his way to the station, seized him by the throat, chloroformed him, and, after securing all the mail-bags, left him asleep in I)is waggon. The driver iu question had been iu the employ of the contractor who delivers the mail at the (stations only some five months, but he is a perfectly honourable and reliable man . Tie was to collect Home DO mail-gags at different places, and deliver them at the Saint J?an Station at 10 o'clock at night. At the hour named he failed to turn up. The inspector at tiie station at once communicated with tho police, and a. scareii was made. Uefore long a man arrived at the station with some mail parrels, whore lie had found on bis way near the abattoir, and which had been thrown there. Finally tho polios were informed that a postal waggon had been found in a certain street, with the driver asleep inside, and had been temporarily placed in tho shed of a sugar depot. The driver was brought back to consciousness, but it was an hour before lit* had sufficiently recovered his senses to give an account of the adventure. Ho Hum stated that he had collected the bays as usual at tho various points in the town, and was driving with about HO sacks along the quays, on his way to the station. Suddenly two masked men jumped on his waggon, and while one seized him by the throat, the other held some cotton saturated with a liquid, which seemed to be chloroform, to his nose. He soon lost consciousness, and does not know what happened afterwards. The waggon was empty, and all the mail-socks li.'irl been tacken away. Several of the sacks have since been found iu a lano near Bordeaux, side by side with an automobile which hj. J id 'icon ahadoned.