. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1063 g
iritish Mail Jobbery Still Mystifies Scotland Yard
Bv HARRV I tT. . ..
By HARRY J. STATHftc
Uiniress '"'"national
LONDON (UPI) Three
months ago this week a gang
operating with the efficiency of
commandos robbed a British
royal mail train and escaped
with the largest cash haul in
history.
Despite Scotland Yard's best
efforts the case remains large
ly a mystery.
Although 19 persons have
been arrested and charged in
connection with the sensational
robbery, the gang's leaders ap
parently are still at large and
most of the 2,631,748-pound ($7,
jw.aaaj loot is still missing..
Scotland Yard's famed "Fly
ing Squad" detectives have
chipped away at the crime that
startled the world last Aug. 8
when the Royal Mail train from
Glasgow to London was held
up near Cheddington, northwest
of London.
Working day and night, sift
ing clues from the scene of the
underworld "stool - pigeons
seeking a share of a record of
fer of 260,000-pounds ($728,000)
reward money, Scotland Yard
made the first arrests only
one week after the robbery.
Since then so far as the pub
lic knows the case has been
bogged down in an on - again,
off-again pre - trial roaring at
Aylesbury, not far. !rom the
scene of the crime, where the
government has been present-
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"yOUNG SHAMUS OTOOLE, born and raised in the deep
-- South, got tired of being called "That so-and-so Irish-
He said, "I'm going back to
man by various townspeople.
the land of my fore
fatherswhere EVERY
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He moved to County
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PUNS WORTH REMEMBERING:
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Addison Mizner's "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder."
Carolyn Wells' "Every dogma must have its day" and "One
man's fish is another man's poisson." '
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ing charges against the 16 men
and three women so far ac
cused. Describes Robbery
The prosecution opened its
case by describing how on the
night of Wednesday, Aug. 7, at
6:50 p.m., 70 sorters locked
themselves in two 60-foot-long robbers.
post ottice coacnes at Glasgow
for the 401-mile trip to London.
At 3:02 o'clock the next morn
ing, Jack Mills, 57, driver of the
mail train, slackened his speed
from 80 miles an hour to obey
an amber signal rigged by the
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T.-She
Travel
should
would
improve
Ina
along
her.
Naomi E. I know many well
traveled bores.
come slides, and collections of straw
Ina T. Our club is signing
up for a 3-week charter flight
to Europe over Christmas and
New Year's. I've talked myself
hoarse trying to get my cousin
to join us. She's a retired teach
er, living alone, .and too much
of a homebody for her own
good. She can well afford the
bargain rates, and the trip
would perk her up for years to
come.
Naomi E. I'm not aware
that I need perking up. And if
I did, 1 wouldn't turn to travel
to do the trick. That's just run
ning away, killing time, rubber
necking in towns that may not
be more interesting than my
own. Why hand them my Amer
ican dollars? I'll spend them
here. As for improvement, if a
person's a dud, travel won't
change him.
The Council: We agree that
once a bore always a bore, re
gardless of snapshots, color
baskets. Because a bore by
definition is someone who
wearies, or in Ambrose Bierce's
Dictionary, "a person who talks
when you wish him to listen.
In other words, a bore becomes
oblivious of his audience's
wishes and moods, merely cater
ing to his own. So Ina can't
promise that travel will auto
matically make Naomi (or any
one) more interesting. It can
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but appreciates the traditions
breathing beneath the surface.
. . .Believe it or not, Ina, there
are people who can travel who
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health, have the money, can get
away from job or family re
sponsibility, but insist, like Na
omi, that they're quite content
at home. A recent survey says 1
out of 10 Americans feels this
way and wonders why the other
9 are so "restless, rne trutn is
Naomi, travel can be broaden
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The narrow-minded can become
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A faked red signal
stopped him. Mills' fireman,
David Whitby, 26, climbed down
in the dark to investigate, saw
a shadowy figure and asked the
classic British question "What's
up, mate?" He soon found out.
"If you shout, said the strang
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In the cab, Mills was slugged
from behind.
The overall clad bandits,
armed with blackjacks, crow
bars and one axe, took 120 bags
of old five-pound and one-pound
notes destined for destruction
by the bank of England from
the train, loaded the haul onto
a truck and two jeeps, and sped
off into the night. The entire
operation took 20 minutes.
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The first break in the case
came five days after the rob
bery when Flying Squad detec
tivesacting on a telephone tip
raided a lonely farmhouse in
Buckinghamshire County and
found the hideout of the gang
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rived at "Leathersladc Farm,"
about 17 miles from the scene
of the robbery, they found evi
dence that the gang had fled
hurriedly. They also found a lit
ter of empty mail bags.
Acting from tiues presumab
ly found in the hideout, Scot
land Yard carried out a series
of raids in London and sur
rounding areas and the first
arrests in the case were made
Aug. 15. Two men were picked
up at the seaside resort of
Bournemouth and one man and
two women were arrested at
their homes in London. Within
the next few days police recov
ered 274,297 pounds ($768,131)
apparently dumped or hidden
in panic.
Among the top suspects still
hunted were a 28-year-old rac
ing driver, Roy John James,
called "The Weasel, and two
antique dealers, John Thomas
Daly, 32, and Bruce Richard
Reynolds, 41.
Almost from the beginning it
has been rumored that the man
in charge of the great mail rob
bery was a onetime commando
officer known as "The Major."
So far as is known, "The
Major" is still among the miss
ing. Under British law the state
must show at a pre-trial hearing
that it has enough evidence to
warrant putting the suspects on
trial.
The prosecution said 15 men
took part in the train robbery
and then holed up at Leathers
lade Farm, where they whiled
away the first hours after the
robbery playing "monopoly"
and drinking beer.
Even as the hearing dragged
on, Scotland Yard gave out 50,
000 copies of posters bearing
photographs of five men and
four women wanted for ques
tioning. This made it evident
that regardless of the men and
women in custody, Scotland
Yard did not claim to have the
case wrapped up.
Daly and Reynolds were mar
ried to good - looking sisters,
Barbara Maria Allan, 22, and
Frances Reynolds. Their pic
tures were widely publicized,
too.
Interpol, the international po
lice organization which had been 1
called into the case almost im
mediately, was asked to check
reports that Daly and Reynolds
might - have gone to Germany
or Austria seeking plastic sur
gery to change their looks. They
have been hunted since all over
Europe, and Britain.
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