HANDS UP!

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 5

HANDS UP!

OARING TRAIN ROBBERY.

AN IMPUDENT CRIME.

| By Electric Telkurapk—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

Sydney, September 15

A daring crime was committed at Broken Hill on Sunday night. Two masked and armed men held up the Broken Hill to Adelaide express, between Sulphide ~reet Station and Railway Town Station and got away with two cash boxes containing between £IOO and £l5O in notes, gold, and silver. The distance between the platforms is only a mile. The holdup was cleverly planned.

'The Silverton Tramway Company is accustomed to send large amounts from Sulphide Street to Railway Town on Sunday nights. The company controls the line from the Broken Hill station to tho border.

Ticket clerk McGuire deposited tin

cash boxes in the guard's van. MaeGuiro, the guard, Finlayson and the assistant guard Lewes remained in the ian. The express departed at 8.30 and bad gone two chains when the two masked men jumped aboard, crawled along the footboard to the van, smashed tho windows with an iron bar, presented revolvers and yelled "hands up," One of the desperadoes remarked to the other "keep them covered while J. get in. If you have any rot from them shoot." He scrambled in and hurled the cash boxes out of the window- and got out. Then the pair jumped off the train, which was going slowly, picked up the boxes, and rushed through an adjacent wood yard. A lady passenger saw them disappear in the darkness. All this happened almost in town, A porter saw the robbers leave and jumped off and pursued them fruitlessly. The police immediately scoured the district but unsuccessfully.

XO CLUE. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, September 16. The police are without a clue in tlie Broken Hill robbery.