TRAIN ROBBERY
MAIL GARS RIFLED. CLERK SHOT DEAD. (Received Last' Night, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, July 1. The Erie mail train was held up by twelve armed and maskSu men. The mail express cars were rifled. The mail clerk and the conductor were both shot, the former fatally. Ties from telegraph poles across the track stopped the train. Many passengers alighted, thinking a collision had occurred. They stampeded aboard the train when the robbers fired upon them.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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77TRAIN ROBBERY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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