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the culprits were being chased by the police vehicle after the collision
with the bus, they were not aimed at the police vehicle, and that proved
that the persons who fired them did not wish to harm anyone, but only to
frighten. I would not subscribe to that argument. In my opinion when,
in Tonkin Street, No.4 and the other person pointed their guns at the.
police vehicle and the occupants stopped and crouched down the men felt
they had achieved their object. They realised it was not necessary to
shoot at the police vehicle but did shoot to warn the occupants to keep
their heads down long enough to enable the culprits escape. What would
have happened had the police not done as they did it is impossible to
say.
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In my
It is impossible to apportion blame in this case.
opinion each was as determined as the other successfully to conclude the
operation; and each was ruthlessly determined to do so, using whatever
means wer
were necessary.
That there was one in overall command there is no doubt, and
in my opinion it was No.7; No.1 was his second in command.
When No.7 was arrested his house was searched. In it was found
a paper pattern, a sewing machine in which were some morsels of cloth
and some thread. A forensi✪ chemist compared these items with a hood
which was recovered from the get-away car. It was found that the cloth
and thread in the hood had identioal characteristics to those found in,
the house of No.7. The thread in the bobbin of the sewing machine also
had identical characteristics to the thread in the hood. The forensic
chemist used the sewing machine on a piece of cloth and compared the
stitching with that in the hood. She found "striking similarities".
It would appear that the hoods were made in No.7's home.
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A bunch of keys was also recovered in this man's house. In
Court he iden' ified them as his.
One of them was found to open the lock
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