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Show By Telegraph. Another Roljlicry oil the CP. R. R. San Francisco, G. A dispatch from Toano, Nevada, to-day says the passenger pas-senger train for the east arrived there yesterday, three hours behind time, having been boarded at Independence, twenty-two miles west of Toano, by four highwaymen, while taking water. The train was uncoupled behind the express car and the robbers ordered the engineer to proceed, leaving the train of cars behind. After running about fifteen miles, the engine stopped. The express car was Eacked and several thousand dollars were taken. The deputy sherif of Toano and a posse armed with Henry rifles immediately started in pursuit of the robbers. The train robbed is the same one that was stopped between Reno and Verdi the day before and plundered. The following are further particulars of the robbery. The mail car was also plundered of a large amount of bonds and greenbacks, estimated at nearly a quarter of a million. Wells, Fargo k Co. offer 15,(J00 for the apprehension of the robbers. A pursuit has been instituted against both bands. A counterfeit bond, of fclO.UOU, was passed in the Bank of California by a man named Van Tassel. He escaped. |
