YOUTHS HOLD-UP TRAIN
Member of Crew Murdered . el PASO (Texas), N.ov. 25. Two youths attired in l6-gallon hats, ckaps and. boots boarded the Southern Pacific passenger train, elieiting smiles from fellow-travellers, who regarded them obviously as tenderfoot cowboys, blit their amusement turned to consternation when the masqueraders herded the train crew and passengers together at the point of a gun. The robbers, later disclgsed to be tyros, nervoiisly skot dead a trainman wlien he made a false move, wkereupon tke passengers leaped on the yontks and' so severely thrashcd them that bofch uro likely to dio.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 7
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96YOUTHS HOLD-UP TRAIN Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 7
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