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With 14 members of his gang, he pinched [Pound sterling] 2.6 million in a celebrated 1963 mail-train heist, then was caught and jailed -- only to escape in 1965 to lead a very public life in Rio, snuggling buxom beach bunnies and dancing away at Carnival.

The Heist: Round Two 2007

‘And then shall we be able to reach Anglebury in time for the up mail-train to Southampton?’

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

“I shall go down by the mail-train tomorrow night,” he said to Amelia Roper, on the evening before his departure.

The Small House at Allington 2004

We had authorized our little interpreter to engage tickets for us by the mail-train the next afternoon for Valladolid; he pretended, of course, that the places could be had only by his special intervention, and by telegraphing for them to the arriving train.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

We were to take the mail-train to Seville; and in Spain the correo is next to the Sud – Express, which is the last word in the vocabulary of Peninsular railroading.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Then the friends parted, and Eames was carried away by the night mail-train down to Guestwick.

The Small House at Allington 2004

He arrived here on Sunday, and it was believed that he intended to travel to England by the mail-train.

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

She is either in the Scotch mail-train, going up to Glasgow, or else she has got some lodgings somewhere, along with

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

And after seeing her safe on board one rainy April afternoon, her tearful face itself like April weather, he took the evening mail-train to Plymouth, and the following morning was on board his ship.

Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

'Yes, sir; he said that you had gone on to Birmingham, by the mail-train, and that he was to follow with the luggage.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various