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How The Great Train Robbery Worked

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The False Confessions of Biggs

There was a lot of reports from these robbers that they were using false confessions and planning evidence. False confessions were big at the time in England. I think we'll ever know if they cooked up some of this evidence or not. There's one guy named Bull, William Bull, who apparently had nothing to do with it. Well, he received money and payment from a debt. No, it was, it was bigs. Oh, bigs, bigs again.

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