RAILWAY ROBBERS IN SPAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1223, 1 May 1880, Page 3

RAILWAY ROBBERS IN SPAIN.

The Madrid correspondent of the Standard gives the folloAving particulars of an attack on a railway train in Spain by brigands early on Sunday morning, 15th February ;— " More precise information about the attack on the Andalusian mail train brigands shows that 18 armed men during Saturday night, entered and robbed the country seat of the widow of Marshal Prim, near the railway. Afterwards, they went to the house of a man whose duty it was to guard a gate on the line, and by menaces obliged him to make danger signals so as to detain the express which approached shortly after midnight from Andalusia and was nearing the junction of A lcazar, The brigands took up two rails, which caused the engine to stop with a shock that awakened the passengers, broke the glass of the windows, and threw the parcels about the carriages. Amidst the darkness and' pouring rain the people heard the brigands cry • Jlalt, ' ana they fired before they attempted [to rifle the car, which contained £1600, the money of the company. In the train, fortunately, were a lieutenant and five gendarmes, who fired as they left their carriage, and a desperate fight ensued. One gendarme and one passenger were wounded. , Marshal Serrano and his aides-de-camp gallantly joined the guards in fighting the brigands, who finally fled, having secured no booty, and deceived by the presence of mind of the marshal and officer of the gendarmes, who, in the obscurity, gave loud orders as if they commanded a strong force. The train contained 250 passengers, whose alarm was terrible, and several hours passed before a relief tva,h* with gendarmes and the could arrive, from Alcazar. The troops haye 1 gone in ' pursuit of the brigands, who, the Madrid papers of this moi'ning say, belong to a gang of desperadoes infesting the mountains of the province of Toledo. Communication has been re-established, and the line is now patrolled. The trains I passed on safely on tbo night following

the outrage. In the same district similar attacks happened in 1874 and 1876." The Pall Mall Gazette of 19th February says that twelve of the brigands have been captured.

** t^ > ry 5^ A- fr ' j j g;vLsbfc- j^uf tje^ unlawfully •caugMfand disposed of in Otago. The police have been instucted to enforce the penalty of the law, £100, against all offenders.

t^bfCE Bismark's little grandson is reported in so precarious a state of health that his life is well nigh despaired of. He was christened in extreme haste a few days ngo in order that he. jnjght not die unbaptised.

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