The Train Bandits
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Callie walks up to the door and sees that the bandits have locked the door. They go to the top of the train to save it. Peck doesn't know if it's safe but they have to dodge the tunnels. When Callie says "duck! Though, Callie is saying to dodge the tunnel. Then, they go inside the train to see the villagers taped against the wall of the train.
Callie learns that the bandits have stolen the trophy. Toby is assigned to free the other passengers.
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Sheriff Callie and Peck the Deputy walks in to see that the train bandits did actually steal the trophy. They have to fight with the bandits! When the two train cars get separated, the train passengers are in danger! The prairie dogs sing their song about Callie having a decision to either rescue the train members or catch the bandits. The bandits have not seen the last of Sheriff Callie.
Sheriff Callie does some brave sheriff action to rescue the train: Once they rescue the train, Callie puts the bandits under arrest.
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Retrieving the trophy back from the bandits, Callie gets the trophy. For a full transcript of Train Bandits , click here. Because of a bank holiday weekend in Scotland, consumer demand had resulted in a record amount of cash flow; this train carried older bills that were headed out of circulation and into the furnace. Besides the unarmed guards, the only security precaution separating the criminals from the money was a sealed door, accessible only from the inside.
The thieves hacked through it with iron tools. Overwhelming the postal workers, they threw mail sacks down an embankment where two Range Rovers and an old military truck awaited. Within the hour, a guard from the back of the train scouted the delay and rushed to the closest station with news of foul play. Alarms rang throughout Cheddington.
The police spent a day canvassing farms and houses before contacting Scotland Yard. The metropolitan bureau searched for suspects through a criminal index of files that categorized 4. British papers criticized the absence of a national police force, saying that a lack of communication between departments fostered an easier getaway for the lawbreakers.
Journalists also balked at the lack of postal security, and suggested that the postal service put armed guards on mail trains. The police knew that the crime required the assistance of an insider with a detailed working knowledge of postal and train operations: McArthur said the robbers would have known this.
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All 15 of the robbers would be arrested, but the insider would remain free. For his role in planning the robbery, the Ulsterman received a cut the thieves split the majority of the money equally and remained anonymous but to three people for decades.
Only one of those three is still alive. Scotland Yard reached a breakthrough in their case on August 13, , when a herdsman told police to investigate Leatherslade Farm, a property about 20 miles away from the crime. The man had grown suspicious over increased traffic around the farmhouse. When police arrived, they found 20 empty mailbags on the ground near a 3-foot hole and a shovel.
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The getaway vehicles were covered nearby. Inside the house, food filled kitchen shelves. The robbers had wiped away many fingerprints, but police lifted some from a Monopoly game board and a ketchup bottle.
One week later, police apprehended a florist named Roger Cordrey in Bournemouth. By January of , authorities had enough evidence to try 12 of the criminals. Justice Edmund Davies charged the all-male jury to ignore the notoriety that the robbers had garnered in the press. On March 26, the jury convicted the men on charges ranging from robbery and conspiracy to obstruction of justice.
The gang consisted of 17 full members who were to receive an equal share, including the men who were at the robbery and two key informants. Retrieved 21 December For his role in planning the robbery, the Ulsterman received a cut the thieves split the majority of the money equally and remained anonymous but to three people for decades. A statement was read on behalf of Gordon Goody. Mills and Whitby were then brought into the carriage, handcuffed together and put down beside the staff. Ronnie Biggs 's only task was to supervise Stan Agate's participation in the robbery, and when it became obvious that Agate was not able to drive the train, he and Biggs were sent to the waiting truck to help load the mail bags.
The judge delivered his sentence a few weeks later. Eleven of the 12 received harsh sentences of 20 to 30 years.
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The prisoners immediately started the appeals process. But by the time the last of these fugitives arrived in jail, two of the robbers had escaped. Police had anticipated one of these prison breaks. They had considered Charles F. Ronnie Biggs became the criminal face of the operation after escaping from a London prison in On one July night, he made his getaway by scaling a wall and jumping into a hole cut into the top of a furniture truck. Biggs fled to Paris, then Australia before arriving in Brazil in the early s.
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He lived there until , when he returned to Britain to seek medical treatment for poor health.