BIG RAILWAY ROBBERY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8934, 27 September 1907, Page 4

BIG RAILWAY ROBBERY.

j Tho Odessa railroad police are searching for tho author of a robj bory of" 1,300,000 roubles "(about ■j £125,000), which took pJaoo ou tho Kharkoff-Odessa line recently, near ! Lubotin. A rich lr.ud-owner, . Madame Dobriiioff, left Khsvkoit by tlie evening train, intending to go j abroad. She was the only occupant ! of the compartment, and having j with her 1,200.000 roubles' worth of 1 scrip, monev, and jewels, she placed > the has with these contents under • her pillow before going to sleep, i It was very hot in the train, which i ran at full speed, and sho saw no I danger iu leaving tlie window open. ! Suddenly she saw a person, covered i with soot, entering through the window of her compartment. Tho man immediately stretched out his ! arm towards the bag, which sho in j her fright, held in her baud, ' laying, "Do not resist, or else it ! will bo the worse for you." HorrorI stricken, sho lot it go. Tho robber ' seized the bag and swiftly jumped | out of tlits window. Madame \ Dobrino raised an alarm, but by the j iirno the train had stopped, no trace of the thief could be found in the { darkness of the night.