TRUE WILD WEST METHODS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 9

TRUE WILD WEST METHODS

TRAIN HELD UP AT CHICAGO SUCCESSFUL COUP BY MASKED BANDITS 100,000 DOLLARS STOLEN By Telegraph.—press Association. Copyright. (Rec. February 26, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 25. Six masked robbers this morliing captured a train in a suburban district of Chicago and took complete possession of the train, over-awing the crew and seventy-live passengers in true Wild West stvle. In twelve minutes they had blown the safe open in the mail car and secured 100,000 dollars in currency, and escaped with it in an automobile. The robbers appeared alongside the train when it stopped to let off a passenger at a station fourteen miles outside Chicago. Two members of the band went to the engine and held up the engineer and fireman; two forced the remainder of the crew into the rear car, and two hammered on the locked door of the baggage car until the clerk appeared, when a volley of shots was fired but nobody was hit. These two then dynamited the door of the mail coach, overpowered the clerk, and obtained the loot, after which the whole six quietly but speedily disappeared. MACHINE-GUN BANDITS AT WORK SENSATIONAL BANK ROBBERIES Kansas City, February 21. Two sensational bank robberies have resulted in losses amounting to 50.000 dollars here and at St. Louis. Machinegun bandits looted the local bank of 20,000 dollars, leaving after a fusilade of shots. Four young robbers trussed up six employees at the St. Louis Bank and escaped with 30,000 dollars in currency.