Cops close in : bookie robbery cracked : supplement July 24, 1976
- Bib ID:
- 6858206
- Format:
- Book
- Printer:
- 32 Walsh Street, Melbourne : Printed and published by Southdown Press
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Southdown Press, 1976
- 1 broadside ; 63 x 50 cm
- Summary:
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A newspaper banner headline broadside, printed in blue and black, which refers to an article stating that detectives investigating a multimillion dollar robbery of bookmakers' money have achieved a breakthrough, and expect to make arrests within two weeks. The robbery, one of the biggest in Australia's history, took place on 21 April 1976.
- Biography/History:
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The Great Bookie Robbery was a crime committed in Melbourne on 21 April 1976. A well-organized gang of six stole what is believed to be from $14 to $16 million from bookmakers in the Australian Jockey Club, in Queen Street, Melbourne. The true figure for the amount stolen has never been confirmed, as the AJC quoted the missing figure to police as only $1 million to avoid the attention of the Australian Taxation Office. Six men, Raymond Chuck-Bennett (Ray Chuck), Brian and Leslie Kane, Ian Carroll, Laurence Prendergast and Norman Lee, rented an office several floors above and hid the money in that room's safe before making a getaway in a van loaded with decoy bags. The identity of the robbers was widely known in the underworld and by corrupt police. Except for one robber who disappeared, the remaining robbers were all dead by 1992, after which a lawyer revealed the details of the crime, including the identities of all those involved. The money was never recovered and no-one was ever jailed or convicted for what remains technically an unsolved crime.—Adapted from Wikpedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bookie_Robbery, viewed 3 June 2015.
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- Caption title.
- At top of title: Truth.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
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- Bookie robbery cracked : supplement July 24, 1976
- Truth : Cops close in : bookie robbery cracked
- Copyright:
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- Until 2046 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1976
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