RAILWAY ROBBERY
Death Of Driver (N .Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NANTWICH (England), Feb. 5. The man who tried to light off the gang involved in Biitain’s Great Train Robbery, died yesterday before he could benefit from a small fortune raised publicly to reward him.
Mr Jack Mills, the driver, i vainly battled with the banIdits when they held up his London-bound mail train in August, 1963, and made off with £2,626,785. Overpowered by numbers, Mr Mills was bludgeoned repeatedly about the head. At his death, Mr Mills was 64, and had been in hospital for six weeks with influenza and complications. Ever since the robbery he had lived the life of an invalid at home, but not long enough to benefit from a nation-wide fundraising drive sponsored last year by his former railway colleagues. The fund was launched in a wave of indignation generated by reports that the wife of one of the train robbers, Mrs Ronald Biggs, had received £30,000 for writing articles in an Australian newspaper.
The Mills fund brought in £34,315.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32215, 6 February 1970, Page 13
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172RAILWAY ROBBERY Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32215, 6 February 1970, Page 13
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