IT’S a mystery that has fascinated the public for more than 50 years – who was the ”Third Man” in the Great Train Robbery? Now compelling evidence from Scotland Yard’s archives marks former boxer …
Background checks raised suspicions that he was the Third Man.
He was only brought along by the gang to move the engine and high-value packages coach — but he failed to do this and never received a share of the loot.But the dossier of evidence presented in Cook’s book, No Case To Answer: The Men Who Got Away With The Great Train Robbery, casts strong suspicion on Ambrose.
Three years after the robbery, Butler’s number two on the train robbery investigation, Det Insp Frank Williams, was identified by notorious torture gang leaderNo proof against any of the officers named by Richardson was ever established, though the notorious gangster was a close associate of robbers Smith and Pembroke
The C11 and A10 inquiry focused on a list of six suspects which they were certain contained the Third Man.
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