The Great New Zealand Robbery
How gangsters pulled off our most audacious robbery
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, True Crime
| Author: | Scott Bainbridge | ISBN: | 9781760638900 |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin | Publication: | July 26, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin | Language: | English |
| Author: | Scott Bainbridge |
| ISBN: | 9781760638900 |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Publication: | July 26, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Language: | English |
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost 1 million today.
This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them.
The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero.
But to this day uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really-cunning as he was-have pulled it off all by himself?
And what happened to the money?
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost 1 million today.
This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them.
The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero.
But to this day uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really-cunning as he was-have pulled it off all by himself?
And what happened to the money?
