Sports Car Clue In Train Robbery Search

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 13

Sports Car Clue In Train Robbery Search

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, August 19. Forensic scientists and fingerprint experts today are continuing their examination of a sports car that the police believe may be connected with the great train robbery of August 8. The car was found last night several hours after the Buckinghamshire police launched a nation-wide hunt for it as a result of a report that it had been bought at a west London garage for £B5O, paid in £5 notes, the night after the robbery.

The black Austin Healey car was left about a mile from the main passenger entrance to London Airport. There is still no trace of the man and woman who are said to have bought the car At Leatherslade farm, Buckinghamshire the robbers' hide-out. police are ending their inch-by-inch search of the premises In spite of cold, rainy weather at the week-end. amateur detectives were out in force. Holidaymakers trudged fields and woods looking for any signs of buried money. The police had appealed

for reports of ‘‘suspicious holes'' where the desperate thieves may have hidden the Loot. But even the most innocent digging became a hazardous operation At Lyndhurst, in southern England, police received a tip two men were digging “a huge hole” on the ocal golf course. Six detectives crept through nearbyundergrowth and swooped on the men—but the startled workmen were only digging foundations for a new club house At Reigate. Surrey, a man who abandoned a large horse box trailer when it got a puncture. found it surrounded by police when he returned to repair it. Police also drew a blank in dragging operations in the

Thames at Vauxhall Bridge, opposite the Houses of Parliament A lorry driver had reported seeing a man throwing several parcels into the murky water.