Escape was in grain ship

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33451, 5 February 1974, Page 13

Escape was in grain ship

i (X'.Z. Press Assn—copyright) ' I LONDON, February 4. The train robber, Ronald Biggs revealed today that he tied from England after his 1965 gaol escape in a grain ship to Belgium where he walked through the docks with a forged passport and dressed in old seaman's clothes. The recaptured Biggs, now detained in Brazil, disclosed ;details of his eight years on the run around the world in jthe first instalment of a

copyright interview publishled by the "Daily Express’’ newspaper. From Belgium. Biggs said , he was taken by car to Paris . where a student surgeon painfully shortened his nose 1 before the anaesthetic took I effect. In the French capital ! he went to the J olies Berb.gere show and nearly got ' dragged on to the stage. 'i From Paris he went to I Australia, landing on the eve i of 1966 at Sydney Airport.; He changed his name to Terence. King, and later still to ■ Terence Cook, setting up 1 homes in turn in Adelaide, i Glenelg. Melbourne, and in t the Dandenong hills behind i Melbourne.