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Thursday, Dec. 12, 1968
How Yard Man Derailed
Last Great Train Robber
By TOM A. CULLEN
LONDON — (NEA) — Thin,
hawk - nosed Detective chief
Superintendent Tommy Butler.
56, is known at Scotland Yard
as the man who never gives up,
a tribute to his bulldog tenacity
in tracking down criminals.
Butler’s doggedness has 1 e d
him up many blind alleys, but
currently it has paid off brillian
tly with the arrest of Bruce Rey
nolds, last of the suspects in Br
itain’s $6 million Great Train
Robbery of 1963.
Reynolds’ arrest ends a five
year search that has sent But
ler scurrying to all parts of Bri
tain and to the Continent as
well, as far south as Tangiers.
Although Reynolds, a 37-year
old antique dealer, has been re
ported as seen in different parts
of the world, he was picked up
by Butler on November 8 less
than 200 miles from London in
the swanky seaside resort of
Torquay.
What gave the drama its pho
to-finish excitement was that the
arrest came only 53 days before
the deadline Butler had set for
closing his connection with the
train robbery case. Butler is due
to retire as head of Scotland
Yard’s Flying Squad at the end
of the year. He should have re
tired 18 months ago, but asked
for an extension in order to cl
ean up the train robbery case.
The British public has always
had a sneaking admiration for
the Great Train Robbers, owing
to their audacity in snatching
such an enormous sum. On Aug
8, 1963, the Glasgow-to-London
mail train was stopped in the
early hours of morning by the
masked gang, who made off
with 120 mailbags crammed
with soiled banknotes that had
been called in from various
banks for destruction. None of
the $6 million could later be
traced, for no one nad bothered
to record the serial numbers
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of the banknotes.
The gang’s success was short
lived, however. By the end of
the year 14 out of 15 of the rob
bers sought by police had been
rounded up, tried, and sentenced
to a total of 284 years in prison.
Only Bruce Reynolds, a good
looking young man wearing
horn-rimmed glasses, was at lar
ge.
Chief Superintendent Butler, a
bachelor whose hair is thinning
on top, shared none of his com
patriot’s sneaking admiration for
the missing Reynolds. To him
the train robber was just anoth
er "hood,” albeit a clever one
who managed to elude police.
Patiently Butler studied all
that was known of Reynolds’ ch
aracter and habits. Reynolds
was a heavy gambler; therefore,
with his cut of the train loot, he
was most likely to be found at
gambling casinos. But he was
also fond of surfing and boating.
Everything seemed to point to
the French Riviera, so Butler sp
ent his last three summer vaca
tions in the south of France sc
anning the beaches from Monte
Carlo to Cannes for traces of the
fugitive.
Last January he took time off
from his search to fly to Cana
da to arrest train robber Char
les Wilson, who had escaped
from prison after being senten
ced to 30 years.
Again in September, Butler
made a flying trip to Tangiers
following up a tip that Reynolds
had been seen there with a blon-
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Butler began his career in 1934
as an ordinary bobble pounding
a beat, but soon got himself tr
ansferred to the detective divis
ion, where by 1954 he had risen
to the rank of inspector.
A nonsmoker who takes only
an occasional dripk, Butler ne
vertheless is liked by his Scot
land Yard colleagues, who res
pect his quiet, reserved manner.
He is a 14 - hours -a- day man
whose mind seldom strays from
his work. His chief relaxation is
watching American westerns on
television, but he has no time for
detective thrillers of the James
Bond variety.
When he retires at the end of
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the year Butler’s chief regret
will be that, although the Great
Train Robbery robbers themsel
ves are safely behind iron bars,
so little of their loot has been re
covered. In fact, only $720,000
has been recovered by the po
lice. The balance of the $6 mil
lion is either buried, or now in
circulation, merrily adding to
Britain’s inflationary spiral.
The oldest town in Connecti
cut is Windsor, established in
1633.
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