ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 5

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

BROKEN HILL TRAIN HELD UP. DESPERADOES FLOURISH REVOLVERS. A SUBSTANTIAL HAUL. (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) * ' SYDNEY, Sept. 15. x A daring crime was perpetrated at Broken Hill on Sunday night. Two masked and armed men held up the Broken Hill to Adelaide express between the Sulphide-street station and the Railway Town-sta-tion. They got away with two cashboxes, containing between £IOO and £l5O in notes, gold, and silver. The distance between the platforms is only a mile. The hold-up was cleverly planned. The Silverton Tramway Company, is accustomed to send large amounts from Sulphide-Btreet to Railway Town on Sunday nights. The company controls the line from broken Hill to the border. A ticket-clerk name McGuire deposited the cash-boxes in the guard's van. McGuire,- with Guard Finlayson and Assistant-Guard Hawes. remained in the van. The express departed at 8.30 and had gone only 'two chains, when two masked men jumped aboard. They crawled along the footboard to, the van,sma>shed the windows with an iron bar, presented revolvers, and yelled, "Hands up!" One desperado remarked to the other, "Keep them covered, -while I get dn. If you have any rot from them, shoot!" He crawled in, hurled the cashboxes out of the window, amd got out. , . Then fHe.p>ir jumped, off the train,--which was going ijowly, picked up the boxes, and .'rushed through an adjacent wood-yard. •A lady passenger saw them disappear in".the darkness. , All this happened almost in the town. A porter caw the robbers leave. ! He jumped off and pursued them fruitlessly. . T>6 police immediately scoured the district, but without success. ,