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Once the police had Sutton the Celebrated, they tried to tack on him every big, unsolved robbery in the country. The first was the famous Brink's case. They decided that if anyone had master-minded the artful dodge, it was the Actor. But Willy didn't give them much help. He remained silent after a short denial. And the police couldn't find any other link between Sutton and the masked marauders. But there was another sort of link. And under the circumstances, it's hard to escape these conclusions: 1) Willy Sutton had nothing to do with...
...more likely that the Brink's gang, not Sutton, had Schuster shot for two reasons: to get him off their necks and to put suspicion for the Brink's job on Willy. Since the police were already trying to pin it on him, the murder would seem to be Willy's way of warning people not to testify at his trial. It almost worked...
There is some argument that by killing Schuster, the Brink's crew would be scaring away witnesses who could put Willy on ice. But anyone who could testify effectively against the Actor probably was informed why Schuster was killed and was assured that he would be safer taking the stand than shying from it. For Willy, times had not been good. He never did have an organized gang; he had only universal sympathy and respect in the underworld...
...took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since the million-dollar Brink's robbery-was missing...
...truck been opened? At first, the cops speculated seriously that a midget had been hidden inside it. But a simpler explanation-which seemed to link the crime with the 1950 Brink's robbery-was soon forthcoming. Bank Truck 512, like other U.S. Trucking Corp, armored vehicles, was kept at night in Brink's Boston garage. Their keys, each with the truck's number, were kept in an unlocked drawer close to the street entrance. Almost anyone, it seemed, could have stolen a key or taken one long enough to get it duplicated. An ex-convict, now employed...