In England in 1855, the latest target of the famous gold thief Edward Pierce was to steal a train from London to Crimea, because the car was full of gold to pay for the local garrison. Also involved in the task were Pierce's beautiful wife Miriam and England's most famous lockpicker, Robert Olga. Pierce found that there were four different locks on the warehouse where the gold was stored on the train, and four different keys were needed to open them, and these four keys were on four different people. So the task was very difficult, but the three of Pierce still stole the gold from the car with their clever minds.
The Great Train Robbery movie plot
2022-06-19 18:12
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Edward Pierce: [narration] In the year 1855, England and France were at war with Russia in the Crimea. The English troops were paid in gold. Once a month, twenty-five thousand pounds in gold was loaded into strongboxes inside the London bank of Huddleston and Bradford and taken by trusted armed guards to the railway station. The convoy followed no fixed route or timetable. At the station, the gold was loaded into the luggage van of the Folkestone train for shipment to the coast and from there to the Crimea. The strongboxes were placed into two specially-built Chubb safes constructed of three-quarter inch tempered steel. Each safe weighed five hundred and fifty pounds. Each safe was fitted with two locks, requiring two keys, or four keys altogether. For security, each key was individually protected. Two keys were entrusted to the railway dispatcher who kept them locked in his office. A third was in the custody of Mr. Edgar Trent, president of the Huddleston and Bradford. And the fourth key was given to Mr. Henry Fowler, manager of the Huddleston and Bradford. The presence of so much gold in one place naturally aroused the interest of the English criminal elements. But in 1855 there had never been a robbery from a moving railway train.
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Edward Pierce: [referring to Trent's apparent lack of vices] No respectable gentleman is THAT respectable.