Author : Scott Bainbridge
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760638900
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)
Book Synopsis The Great New Zealand Robbery by : Scott Bainbridge
Download or read book The Great New Zealand Robbery written by Scott Bainbridge and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?