Gangland Robbers (38 page)
Authors: James Morton
It has also to be said: | |
Eighteen-year-old Joseph Swan: | |
Western ended up âas riddled as Swiss cheese'. | |
However, it is possible Smith: | |
He reached for a pistol and was shot: | |
In May 2006 a coroner ruled: | |
At the time of his death, he was wanted for robberies: | |
At the time of his death, he was suspected: | |
The actual robbers are now alleged: | |
As Detective Constable Stephen Canellis: | |
The Court of Appeal disagreed: | |
They were refused leave to appeal. | |
At the time of the robbery, veteran lawyer: |
At the relatively low end: | |
At the time of the Lang robbery: | |
He had claimed the sentence: | |
In the meantime: | |
After surgery to reattach his fingers: | |
As other types of targets: | |
Given that there are conflicting: | |
While at first this was a sneak-thief: | |
Justice Philip McMurdo said although: |
There is now CCTV: | |
The car was found soon afterwards: | |
Kovacs was identified as a known: | |
Despite a reward of £1000: | |
They are defined by the risk-to-yield: | |
Upon his departures, he would: | |
Amateurs tend to be opportunistic: | |
There's limited premeditation in robberies: | |
Intermediate armed robbers are generally: | |
Professional armed robbers have: | |
This type of robbery produced: | |
In February 2016 she was: | |
The year before, Santalab: | |
He appealed his life sentence: | |
The trend towards this sort: | |
However, the total of 159: | |
Benjamin Power received a nine-year: | |
Red Rat Pollitt became a successful painter: | |
She claimed she had been forced: | |
When Pentridge, where he had been imprisoned: | |
The authorities said he had committed: |
Our thanks go first and foremost to Dock Bateson for her research, advice and help. Without her, this book would never have seen the light of day. They also go, in strictly alphabetical order, to Gary Adshead, Sunil Badami, Nicholas Cowdery QC, Sean Cowan, Paul Danilios, David Dixon, Michael Drury, Sally Heath, Lisa Anne Jones of the Queensland Police Museum, the late Paul Lincoln, the late Billy Longley, Foong Loon Kong, Bernie Matthews, Brian Murphy, Sybil Nolan, Mark Norman SC, John Rigbey, Russell Robinson, Adam Shand, Clive Small and Adrian Tame, as well as a number of people who have asked not to be named. Our thanks go also to the staff of the State Archives of New South Wales and Victoria, the National Library of Australia, the Mitchell-Dixon library in Sydney and the John Oxley Library, Brisbane, the State Libraries of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia, as well as the British Library and the National Archives, Kew, England. The following websites were invaluable: austlii.edu.au, newspapers.nla.gov.au, Fairfax News Store and paperspast, natlib.govt.nz.
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