On arrival of the train from Borne on December 16th at Casalnuovo, the ticket station before Naples, two gentlemanlydressed persona entered a first«class smoking carriage, in which a lawyer and a goods inspector were travelling. As soon as the train went at full speed the strangers, with daggers drawn, robbed them of their watches, money, and valuables, inflicting some slight wounds in struggle. When the train slackened speed near Naples the robbers jumped out : from the carriage and escaped across the fields. The number of railway servants killed in England averages about 600 a year, and -~ the number injured about 3000. The worst kind of forgery is false note* by a singer. »
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4444, 3 April 1883, Page 2
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