ATTEMPTED TRAIN ROBBERY.
A Banker Attacked. St. Petersburg, October 9. Armed passengers travelling on the Dorpat-Walz railway in the Baltic Provinces, south-west of the capital, tried to rob a banker who was carrying a large sum of money.
Escorting gendarme opened fire, and one robber, two passengers, and one gendarme were killed, while the banker and a gendarme and several passengers were wounded. The robbers jumped from the train and escaped without securing any plunder.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 12 October 1907, Page 4
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75ATTEMPTED TRAIN ROBBERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 12 October 1907, Page 4
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