MAIL TRAIN LOOTED
ROBBERS MAKE HAUL OF £26,000 MACHINE-GUN BANDITS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Saturday. A sensational affair is reported from Martinez, California, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. Two robbers held up a Southern Pacific passenger train, shot and wounded the enginedriver, and escaped with the loot, which may reach £26,000. The bandits used a machine-gun mounted on a motor-car, and fired a fusillade of shots at the enginedriver when he declined to stop the train. They then held the train crew at bay while they methodically rifled the mailbags.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 697, 24 June 1929, Page 9
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94MAIL TRAIN LOOTED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 697, 24 June 1929, Page 9
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