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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1922, Page 4

FTOT-TT IN EX Pl] ESS. NEW YORK, Nov. •!. Pistols, petrol, and dynamite were used by six bandits who held up tin* New Orleans Limited, a famous express train of the Illinois Central Railway, near Paxton,. 100 miles south of Chicago, yesterday, bleu up the mail coaeli, and wounded several members of the train staff and passengers in a fight on a high trestle lriidge. Tiie bandits, who escaped with several hags of registered mails, are now being hunted through the State of Illinois by sheriffs and posses numbering •500 men. Two of the robbers were passengers in the train. They climbed over the engine tender as the train was travelling at 70 miles an hour, held revolvers at the heads of the driver :wul stoker and made them stop the train. A third bandit uncoupled the engine, the luggage van, and the mail conch, and Ihe driver was then ordered to drive these on to the trestle bridge half a mile away, where three more men were waiting; The men in the steel mail ear refusing to open the doors, the highwaymen blew them open with dynamite. The men inside oponed fire with revolvers, to wlncli the bandits replied by throwing in a bottle af petrol and setting the coach on fire. To save themselves the defenders came out, bringing several sacks of registered letters. At thiß moment the remainder of the staff of the train, reinforced by several passengers, arrived and attacked the bandits, who retreated along the bridge with their booty. They got into a waiting motor car aiid drove off.