BANDITS IN A TRAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1921, Page 5

BANDITS IN A TRAIN.

ROB PASSENGERS’ VALUABLES. A SENSATIONAL HOLD-UP. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 26, 5.5 p.m. Loudon, July 25. The Morning Post’s Paris correspondent states that a wild-west-like holu-up was carried out on the Paris-Marseilles express when it was travelling sixty miles an hour between Beaune and Chagny. . At 1.30 in the morning four masked men, armed with revolvers, suddenly appear e-J in the last carriage, which was a first-class one, containing fourteen sleeping passengers, including several English. Two of the bandits guarded the ends of the coach and two opened the berths. The passengers, when awakened, were surprised and helpless and held up their hands. A French subaltern, realising what had occurred, attacked the foremost ‘bandit, who shot the officer dead and his companion was wounded. The bandits thoroughly looted all the passengers, pulled the communication cord, ano left quietly when the train stopped. They escaped in tbe darkness to a motor car waiting near Chagny, leaving no trace.—aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.