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Author | : G. R. Williamson |
Publisher | : Indian Head Publishing |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2021-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This the true story of Willis Newton and his outlaw gang who robbed trains and over seventy banks—more than Jessie James, the Daltons, and all of the rest of the Old West outlaws—combined. Their biggest haul occurred in 1924 when they robbed a train outside of Rondout, Illinois—getting away with $3,000,000. They still hold the record for the biggest train robbery in U.S. history. G.R. Williamson interviewed Willis Newton a few months before the outlaw died in 1979 at age 90, then using transcripts from his interviews, first-hand accounts from eye witnesses, newspaper articles, police records, and trial proceedings - Williamson tells the true story of The Great $3,000,000 Train Robbery.
Author | : W.C. Jameson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1493046098 |
One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who often carried large sums of money as well as valuable jewelry. For the creative outlaw, trains became an obvious target for robbery. Willis Newton has never enjoyed the recognition and fame of the better known train robbing outlaws such as Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Daltons, and the Doolins, but he was the most prolific and successful train robber in the history of North America. Newton stole more money from the railroads than all of the others put together. During his lifetime, Newton robbed six trains and an estimated eighty banks, pulled off the greatest train robbery ever, netting $3,000,000, yet remains virtually unknown. So unknown was he that, despite all of his success as a robber, he was rarely identified as a suspect. Following his greatest heist, Newton and his gang member, composed of his brothers, were arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to serve long terms at Leavenworth Prison. When they were granted early release for good behavior, they lost no time in returning to robbing banks. Willis Newton’s life and times as America’s greatest, and last, train robber has been gleaned and developed from extensive interviews he granted during the 1970s when he was in his eighties. In addition, newspaper reports of his numerous train and bank robberies have been obtained and researched for precise details of robberies and pursuit.
Author | : Paul Leicester Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Larry Sturholm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Train robberies |
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Author | : Paul Leicester Ford |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2016-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1776670655 |
Based on a true story, this gripping caper novel from Paul Leicester Ford will have you hanging on the edge of your seat. After a series of robberies that have devastated the transportation industry, one enterprising detective goes undercover to get to the bottom of the crime spree. Will he be able to put a stop to one of the most audacious criminal plots ever devised?
Author | : Brenda Haugen |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Thieves |
ISBN | : 0756543606 |
Shout and we'll kill you! Threats and violence were part of the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Its loot was, at that time, the largest amount of cash ever stolen in Britain. The Crime of the Century seemed to be perfectly planned and executed, but police aimed to show that they'd find those involved and bring them to justice. Would they succeed or would the daring criminals involved in the crime escape with the cash?
Author | : Michael Crichton |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997-06-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345418999 |
Out of print for years, this Chrichton bestseller is re-released to coincide with the publication of Chrichton's latest hardcover, Sphere, coming from Knopf.
Author | : Nick Russell-Pavier |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0297864408 |
Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail train in a daring and brilliantly executed operation lasting just 46 minutes. Quickly dubbed the crime of the century, it has captured the imagination of the public and the world's media for 50 years, taking its place in British folklore and giving birth to the myths of The Great Train Robbery. Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds became household names. But what really happened? This is the story of four talented villains who took the criminal world by storm, of the 'perfect crime'. It is also the story of ruthless policemen, determined to hunt the robbers down and to make sure nobody slipped through the net, not even the innocent. It is the story of an Establishment under siege, and of one mistake which cost the robbers 307 years in prison. Fifty years later, here is the story set out in full for the first time, a true-life crime thriller, and also a vivid slice of British social history.
Author | : R. Michael Wilson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461748488 |
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these (15-20) are included in this book.
Author | : Doug Hocking |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2023-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1493071114 |
In 1854, the United States acquired the roughly 30,000-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase. This new Southern Corridor was ideal for train routes from Texas to California, and soon tracks were laid for the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rail lines. Shipping goods by train was more efficient, and for desperate outlaws and opportunistic lawmen, robbing trains was high-risk, high-reward. The Southern Corridor was the location of sixteen train robberies between 1883 and 1922. It was also the homebase of cowboy-turned-outlaw Black Jack Ketchum’s High Five Gang. Most of these desperadoes rode the rails to Arizona’s Cochise County on the US-Mexico border where locals and lawmen alike hid them from discovery. Both Wyatt Earp and Texas John Slaughter tried to clean them out, but it took the Arizona Rangers to finish the job. It was a time and place where posses were as likely to get arrested as the bandits. Some of the Rangers and some of Slaughter’s deputies were train robbers. When rewards were offered there were often so many claimants that only the lawyers came out ahead. Southwest Train Robberies chronicles the train heists throughout the region at the turn of the twentieth century, and the robbers who pulled off these train jobs with daring, deceit, and plain dumb luck! Many of these blundering outlaws escaped capture by baffling law enforcement. One outlaw crew had their own caboose, Number 44, and the railroad shipped them back and forth between Tucson and El Paso while they scouted locations. Legend says one gang disappeared into Colossal Cave to split the loot leaving the posse out front while they divided the cash and escaped out another entrance. The antics of these outlaws inspired Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to blow up an express car and to run out guns blazing into the fire of a company of soldiers.