A Forceful Personality
It’s all who you know, right? Well, Tony Gavin held on to the connections that he gained through a career in the criminal underworld. He stayed connected to all the criminals and gang members he befriended over the years. There is a rumor that Gavin was a member of a gang. Journalists who later researched this case described him as “a forceful personality… who had the propensity to be physically threatening.”
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Gavin himself later admitted that his plan for the robbery had, in fact, been taken straight out of the pages of the Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Red-Headed League.” In the story, the mythical detective foils a bank robbery after the thieves tunneled their way into a vault. But Gavin’s story wasn’t fictional.