Rail Robbery Arrests
(N.Z. Press Assn—-Copyright) LONDON, December 11. A racing driver wanted in connexion with Britain's £2,500,000 mail train robbery was arrested last night after a rooftop chase. The man, Roy John James, known as “the weasel.” was later charged with robbery and conspiracy to rob the train at Cheddington on August 8. He will appear in court tomorrow.
Twenty other persons have so far been charged with the roobery.
James is a 28-year-old silversmith, His arrest followed the arrest in a fashionable London apartment of a ; -year-old Irish antique dealer, John Thomas Daly. “The weasel’’ was entered for a car race at Goodwood on August 24 16 days after the robbery—-but he failed to appear. On August 22 he had been practising on the Goodwood circuit and the month before he had set up a lap record at the northern England circuit and been hailed as a possible champion.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 16
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