CANADIAN BANDITS
DARING HOLD-UP
United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
VANCOUVER, July 30
Mistaking a paymaster's car 'for a bank car, carrying a monthly pay roll, five unmasked bandits staged a daring hold-up in the Canadian-Pacific railway yards to-day, and escaped, after a gun battle, with £91,520 in cheques, which were worth less to them. The bank car was to follow a short while later, with currency for employees’ salaries. The hold-up was one of the most daring in Canadian crime annals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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