TRAIN ROBBER ON TRIAL
BLAMES PICTURE SHOWS FOR . HIS ESCAPADE. Sydney, January 11. - Larsen. the perpetrator of the 1 train hold-up in December, has been committed for trial. He attributed the escapade to the influence of picture shows. The driver stated that during the struggle the train, , witli three hundred passengers on board, attained a dangerous speed.—Press Ass)i._ [The Forbes mail train, on its way to Bathurst, was held up near Pentheville on December 23 by a masked man with a revolver. A violent struggle followed between the man and the engine crew, ,md ho then jumped off the engine, and was found unconscious.]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 4
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104TRAIN ROBBER ON TRIAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 4
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