TRAIN HOLD-UP
BY INDIAN BANDITS. 'United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, October 17. A sensational train hold-up by armed, masked Dac-oits, was frustrated at Malerkotla in the Punjab by the pluck of the engine crews. While the train was travelling at night, a passenget(, armed with a revolver, pulled the communication cord and brought the train to a standstill. A gang of twenty immediately appeared from the darkness. Guns were fired at the crews of both engines, wounding the drivers. The Dacoits attempted to force a safe in the guard’s van, hut they were driven off by a fusilade by the guard and the firemen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1929, Page 6
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106TRAIN HOLD-UP Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1929, Page 6
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