A Tragic Ending
After more than six years of suffering Mr Jack Mills, the driver of the English mail train which was robbed of £2.6 million in 1963, has died. Mr Mills was badly injured when he attempted to beat off the robbers. This epilogue to a brutal crime gives the lie to the glamour it acquired from the scale of the theft, and the subsequent adventures of the gang responsible. Most of the stolen money has not been recovered. ,One of the gang, who was reported to be still at 1 large in Australia recently, may have had access to , sufficient funds to bribe police. He has not been 'caught. His wife received $30,000 for articles she ■wrote for newspapers w’hich pander to vulgar cravings for the sensational. Public indignation in Britain then led to the raising of a fund of $34,000 to help Mr Mills. He did not live to enjoy the benefits it -jnight have bought him. At least his death may serve to bring the full weight of public opprobrium against those responsible for such spectacular and violent crimes—and those who might be tempted to assist or admire them.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32215, 6 February 1970, Page 12
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193A Tragic Ending Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32215, 6 February 1970, Page 12
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