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Crimes - Criminals - Judges - Lawyers - Trials

Jun. 06, 1965 - Daring South Africa Greenland and China : Bandits last night ambushed a post office mail van in the tunnel which runs under the Strand into Kingsway, and got away with registered mail worth about30, 000, after blocking the Waterloo-bridge entrance with road closed signs. They coshed the van driver and stole 80 mailbags. 40 minutes after the raid, the Post office driver, 67 year old Mr. Walter Smith, wa dumped from the bandits car outside a hospital in Stepney. He was suffering from head injuries. Photo Shows: The mail van being tested for fingerprints after last nights daring robbery in the Strand underpass

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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Ambushed Bandits Blocking Coshed Daring Dumped Fingerprints Greenland Injuries Kingsway Mailbags Minutes Registered Runs Stepney Strand Suffering Tested Underpass Worth


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