TRAIN BANDITS.
HOLD UP EXPRESS. A SENSATIONAL BATTLE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Nov. 8. Six train robbers, armed with revolvers, rifles, dynamite and odor bombs, held up the Chicago—New Orleans express near Champaign (Illinois), and, after a sensational battle with the train crew, they escaped with a quantity of registered mail. The bandits boarded the train, compelling the driver to halt the coaches on a high trestle bridge. The mail car was then uncoupled and taken down the traek. When the postal men refused jo open the doors the bandits set the car on firey forcing the employees to throw out the mail bags. Meanwhile the passengers and train ■'crew crawled along the trestle bridge and fired on the bandits, who replied, wounding six. The robbers got away in an automobile.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1921, Page 3
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132TRAIN BANDITS. Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1921, Page 3
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