"GREAT CRIMES" by John Escott- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (following) and some curious facts about famous robberies.

EL ROBO AL TREN DEL DINERO (continuación) y algunos hechos curiosos sobre robos  famosos. 


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in Dover on the south coast of England.  Police suspected that he was trying to get abroad ( al extranjero). Buster Edwards gave himself up  (se rindió)  in 1966.  And Bruce Reynolds -the leader of the gang- was finally caught in 1968.  He was arrested in Torquay, in Devon, and was sent to jail for 25 years.

Two of the gang were not in jail for long.

In August 1964, Charlie Wilson escaped from Birmingham's Winston Green prison when three men broke into the prison to release him (liberarle),  even though prison officers were watching him carefully because they suspected that he was a person likely to try to escape.

In July 1965, Ronnie Biggs got out of Wandsworth prison with three other prisoners while they were walking between the prison buildings.  The four men climbed the 6 metre prison wall using a rope ladder (escalera de cuerda), which had been thrown down by one member of an "escape gang"  outside.

Charlie Wilson went to France and Mexico after his escape, but was finally caught again in Canada in 1967.

Ronnie Biggs finally went to live in Brazil, after first escaping to Australia.  He was still there, living in Rio de Janeiro with his girlfriend and their child but  he has recently  asked for coming back to England because of his age and because he wanted to  die in his country.  Until that moment, English lawyers and the English police couldn't do anything about him!

Four gang members were NEVER caught.


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CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT ROBBERIES!!

HECHOS CURIOSOS SOBRE ROBOS.

** The first train to be robbed was in America.  On October 6, 1866, four brothers, John, Simeon, William and Frank Reno, stopped the train near Saymour, Indiana, and stole  10,000 dollars.

** Two other famous train robbers were ROBERT LEROY PARKER and HARRY LONGBAUGH, better known as "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sundance Kid".
These famous criminals robbed trains and banks throughout North and South America in the late 1890s.
From 1901 they lived in South America, and it is believed that they were shot dead by soldiers in Bolivia in 1909.


** Ned Kelly was probably Australia's most famous criminal.
He, his brother Dan, and two other men, were responsible for many robberies during the years 1878 to 1880.
Ned wore a strange metal suit to protect himself, but was finally caught.
He was hanged (ahorcado)  in Melbourne in 1880.

** In January, 1950, seven men, wearing "funny-face" masks, broke into (irrumpieron) the Brinks Armoured Car Company in Boston, America and stole nearly 3 million dollars.  It took 6 years and cost 29 million dollars before the criminals were caught and brought to trial.


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