Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — BIG HIGHWAY ROBBERY. [ARTICLE]

BIG HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

A Manitoba Mall-Coacb Set Upon by Boad Agent* and SCO,OOO Taken Therefrom. (Winnipeg (Man.) special.] - Six mounted and masked highwaymen robbed her Majesty’s mail-coach twentyfive miles south of Humboldt Station,, obtaining $20,000 from the mail-bags. The coach had left Qu’Appelle Friday. It is reported that the driver was killed. The coach contained two passengers. It is supposed to be the work of Montana road agents. Mounted police are scouring the country in search of the highwaymen,