History's Greatest Robbery

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English author quotes authority
to prove world’s most audacious
theft and establish daring rogue’s
right to top place on pinnacle
of criminal fame.

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NCE at least in every decade the
story comes to the fore of the
most daring robbery in history—
the theft of the Crown Jewels from
the Tower of London. The story has

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Swashbuckling Col. Blood Stole

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been told in many ways, generally in
fiction form.

It is now told with the stamp of
authenticity by Max Peacock, English
author writing from what sounds like
a sylvian-retreat, Kingston-on-Thames,
London, England and published by
Harlequin Books.

Author Peacock sweeps all fictional
versions.

“Colonel Thomas Blood, who, dis-
guised as a parson, stole the Crown
Jewels from the Tower of London,
was a real person,” he says, in a pre-
fatory note to his exciting record of an
outstanding incident in old English
history. “The Captain Blood of Rafael
Sabatini’s great story is not the real
Capt. Blood, but a creation of that
gifted author’s brain.”

“My Colonel Blood,” says Peacock,
“was once an actual living person. Not

only did he once live, but he per-

formed all the misdeeds with which I
have credited him.”

“Doubters, if there are any?”
the author emphasizes, are re-
ferred to the Dictionary of Na-
tional Biography where, under
the head of ‘Blood, Thomas’ they
will find them all set down.”

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Then in the paradoxical way of
England, ruthless in hunting down
criminals, then writing books and
verse in adulation of their exploits

after they have expiated their crimes
he tells of the colonel’s exploits.

Colonel Blood, however, paid no
penalty for the theft of the crown
jewels—or his long record of murder
and other robberies.

The author is annoyed. Other out-
standing criminals have achieved
greater historical fame. He deplores
the way in which the name of his
favorite criminal has been forgotten.

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