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Old: the end of the Tottenham Outrage / Walthamstow Tram Chase, Hale End Rd / Oak Hill.

Excerpt from The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase ISBN 978-1-909976-40-5:

[…] £5 was found on Lepidus’ body, but that no money at all had been found on Hedfeld’s […] £75 was still missing.
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Many years later, local gossip was that the Rolstone family was living well beyond its means. The suspicion was that they found the money up the chimney and said nothing. The family ignored the gossip and kept tight-lipped. Many more years passed before Charles Rolstone junior, the young boy who had been trapped in Oak Cottage by Lepidus at the end of the chase, gave an interview to local historian, Ray Dudley of Whipps Cross Radio and the Tape Recorders Guild and admitted that Oak Cottage partially collapsed during a storm several years after the incident and that, while clearing the rubble afterwards, a sum of money was found in what was left of the fireplace in the front parlour. He did not disclose exactly when this happened or precisely how much money. But perhaps this was why Lepidus had climbed up the chimney just before he went upstairs and put his pistol to his head and killed himself?

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