HOLD-UP ON THE HIGH SEAS.
SENSATIONAL ATTEMPT TO ROB A
STEAMER.
CAPTAIN GRAPPLES WITH A
DESPERADO.
By Telsjrraph—Frosa Association—rjopjTiebJ San Francisco, January 2 :'f?'.
A sensational attempt to rob .t]>o' steamer Williamette, plying along theCalif ornian coast, was frustrated : , by Captain Reiner. '/...-=*
As the captain was sitting in 'his' cabin a disguised, masked, and armed man entered. Tho captain grappled, with him instantly, securing his The captain's shouts and cries attracted tho attention of the sailors, : who; secured tho man. .-■-,■/
The man was believed to be insane, because of his behaviour. A comeder-; 1 ate, however, who has also been arrested, declared that it had been planned to rob the ship's safe of a largo sum of money and compel the passengers and crow 'to give up all their valuables. Y Tho robbers travelled amongst tho passengers until the .vessel was in tho open sea.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1949, 5 January 1914, Page 5
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145HOLD-UP ON THE HIGH SEAS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1949, 5 January 1914, Page 5
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