EXPRESS TRAIN HELD UP
SENSATIONAL BATTLE WITH ROBBERS. Vancouver, November 8. Six train robbers, armed with revolvers, rifles, and dynamite bombs, and using searchlights, held up the ChicagoNew Orleans express near Champaign, Illinois. After a sensational battle with the train crew, they escaped with a quantity of registered mail. The bandits boarded the train, and compelled the driver to stop the train on a trestle bridge. The mail car was then uncoupled, and taken down the track. When the postal men refused to open the doors, the bandits set fire to the car, and forced the employees to throw out the mail bags. Meanwhile the passengers end the train crew crawled along the trestle and fired 1 at the bandits, who replied, wounding six people. They then escaped in an automobile.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MARINES TO GUARD ALL VALUABLE MAILS. (Rec. November 9, 8.15 p.m.) New York, November 8. Following a conference between President Harding and the Postmaster-Gen-eral, Mr. Hays, it has been decided to employ a thousand marines to guard all valuable mails throughout the United States. The step is the result of the numerous mail robberies recently. Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19211110.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 40, 10 November 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
191EXPRESS TRAIN HELD UP Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 40, 10 November 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in