Gangland Robbers
- ISBN-10
- 0522870260
- ISBN-13
- 9780522870268
- Category
- True Crime
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-08-29
- Publisher
- Melbourne Univ. Publishing
- Authors
- James Morton, Susanna Lobez
Description
Robbers have always seen themselves as the cream of the underworld; the top of the criminal aristocracy in and out prison. This is the story of the men and women who go to great lengths to organise a heist which, if all goes well, should keep them in luxury for many years, if not for life. And if it fails then often it is another sort of life. From the Tunnel digging heist of the Bank of Australia robbery in 1828 to the Cash in Transit robberies of today, Morton and Lobez cover the stories of the robbers and robberies of the past 200 years; through the bushrangers; Squizzy Taylor and his crew; the train robbers of the 1930s; men such as Jockey Smith, 'Mad Dog' Cox, Chuckie Bennett and the ill-fated Victorian Bookie Robbery, Melbourne's Joey Turner, as well as the less well known 'Angel of Death', 'The Country Bandit', 'The Pushbike Bandit', 'The Gentleman Bandit' and a hundred more; the lives—their own and others—they ruined; those who went to the gallows and the very few who redeemed themselves.
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