TRAIN ROBBERS CAPTURED.
BIG REWARD SECURED BY SCHOOLBOYS.
Received May 31, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, May 30,
The Omaha train robbers have been captured, on the infoimation of three schoolboys, who divide the reward of 20,000 dollars'(£4,ooo) offered by the Union Pacific Railroad Company for their capture.
A recent cablegram stated that a band of robbers, who were masked, stopped a Union Pacific express train at Omaha, and after frightening the passengers with revolvers, got away with seven registered letter mailbags containing £30,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3203, 1 June 1909, Page 5
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83TRAIN ROBBERS CAPTURED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3203, 1 June 1909, Page 5
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