The Crime Book
19 See also: The Great Train Robbery 30–35 H ighwayman John Nevison (1639–94) was supposedly nicknamed “Swift Nick” by King Char ...
20 A lthough far from the most successful pirate, Edward “Blackbeard” Teach is undoubtedly the most notorious. Originally an Eng ...
21 See also: The Hawkhurst Gang 136–37 BANDITS, ROBBERS, AND ARSONISTS combined crews after he voted against a decision to attac ...
22 A pair of Irish immigrants became unlikely grave robbers – and ultimately killers – in 19th-century Scotland when greed got t ...
23 See also: Jack the Ripper 266–73 BANDITS, ROBBERS, AND ARSONISTS his unique technique. They loaded the body into a tea chest ...
24 F rom February 1866 to September 1876, the James- Younger Gang robbed 12 banks, five trains, five stagecoaches, and an exposi ...
BANDITS, ROBBERS, AND ARSONISTS 25 Tracking them down In 1874, following a train robbery in Missouri, the Adams Express Company, ...
26 IT’S FOR THE LOVE OF A MAN THAT I’M GONNA HAVE TO DIE BONNIE AND CLYDE, 1930–34 I n the late night hours of 13 April 1933, tw ...
27 See also: The James-Younger Gang 24–25 ■ The Wild Bunch 150–51 window. His paramour Parker laid down cover fire with her own ...
28 BONNIE AND CLYDE The Dallas Morning News issue announcing the death of Bonnie and Clyde sold 500,000 copies. A group of Dalla ...
29 The death car became the subject of so much interest that fakes began to appear. The local sheriff tried to keep the car but ...
YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE IT THEY’VE STOLEN THE TRAIN THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, 8 AUGUST 1963 030-035_Great_Train_Robbery.indd 30 02/1 ...
YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE IT THEY’VE STOLEN THE TRAIN THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, 8 AUGUST 1963 030-035_Great_Train_Robbery.indd 31 02/1 ...
32 A t the beginning of the 1960s, life for many Londoners was poverty- stricken and drab. The austerity of postwar rationing wa ...
33 Bridego Bridge. The mail train was typically long, its cars manned by up to 80 postal workers who spent the journey sorting l ...
34 THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY The plan started with a tampered signal at Sears Crossing. The train stopped and two carriages were d ...
35 Leatherslade Farm, later dubbed “Robber’s Roost” by the press, was searched by police after farmworker John Maris tipped them ...
36 See also: John MacLean 45 ■ The Antwerp Diamond Heist 54–55 ■ Doris Payne 78–79 B ill Mason was an unexceptional property man ...
37 See also: Thomas Blood 18 ■ The Theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar 56 F or England’s football fans, 1966 lives in the memory as ...
MISS, YOU’D BETTER LOOK AT THAT NOTE D.B. COOPER, 24 NOVEMBER 1971 038-043_DB_Cooper.indd 38 02/12/2016 14:40 038-043_DB_Cooper. ...
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