TRAIN ROBBERY
BANDITS HOLD-UP
£4500 STOLEN
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 9.
The /most desperate and sensational train robbery in the history of Australia, occurred late last night near Glenbrook station on the mountain line. Two masked armed men held up the guard and escort in the mail van of the Mudgee express, rifled the mails and decamped with £4500. The guard, E. Squires, ‘was knocked senseless and while one of the bandits held the escort at bay, the other ransacked the mail bags and bundles, until he discovered a bag containing the money.
The robbers then held the guard and escort until the express slowed down a tunnel. Running to the door of the van, the men leaped into the darkness with their haul and disappeared into the bush. ,
The whole affair had been carefully planned. The train was just leaving Emu Plains when the bandits jumped aboard. ■
On arrival of the express at Glenbrook every mountain police station was informed and an intensive search is now in operation.
Squires, who is badly, hurt, and the escort, are unable- to give a description ol the men’s faces, so well were they masked.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1930, Page 6
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