Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ronnie Biggs, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Ronnie Biggs, a carpenter and petty crook who became an international celebrity for his role in one of Britain’s most famous crimes, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and for the decades he spent afterward eluding a worldwide manhunt by Scotland Yard, died on Wednesday in London, according to his publicists. He was 84.  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

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