26 August

Burgess and Tester sail for Western Australia on the convict ship Edwin Fox.

Great Gold Robbery of 1855 Convicted

In May 1855 four men emptied the bullion safes on the London-to-Folkestone night train and refilled them with lead shot. Nobody noticed until Paris.

Postal inspector William Fahy is arrested after calling Murray on a tapped telephone.

Rondout train robbery Convicted

June 1924: the Newton brothers stop a mail train north of Chicago and take some $2 million, America's biggest train robbery. A postal inspector planned it.