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How The Great Train Robbery Worked

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The Staring Robbery

It was, I guess, sort of like the Elliot Ness of the day going after Al Capone. They started to go down one by one. There was a pretty short list of people who they thought it was. It wasn't like some great mystery. Once they started peeling away one and came to one here there, others started falling. Others did anyone who was caught named names? Did you get that impression? Most of them were pretty tight-lipped. In fact, one guy, Charlie Wilson, he was the treasurer of the gang,. He didn't speak at all during the trial. One of them managed to have a lawyer because his prints were on the Monopoly game

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