TRAIN HELD UP
BY CALIFORNIA BANDITS.. {United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, November 7. A message from Oakland, California states that five armed bandits held up a, Southern Pacific passenger train at Nobel, in California. They stole an undetermined amount of cash and valuable mail. It is reported that there were approximately fifty thousand dollars of currency in the .fifteen bags of'the registered mail. A man boarded the train, as a passenger, at Berkeley. He forced the train crew to stop the train at Nobel, a small settlement, where four other men, from an automobile, appeared, and they aided iii guarding the train, while tfye first man rifled the mail and baggage cars. The robbers were heavily armed. 'They used a motor carrying two mounted machine guns. .......
Heavy guards have been set on the roads in the vicinity, in an endeavour to apprehend the bandits.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1930, Page 6
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