As Hatry, Daniels, Tabor and Dixon sat in the Charing Cross Hotel eating their lunch, they reflected on Inspector Stubbings’ suggestion that they had a chance to flee if they would only take it, following the examples of the fraudsters Jabez Balfour 35 years before and Gerard Lee Bevan seven years before. While flight might have seemed attractive to others who were not involved, to them it seemed desperate. After Gialdini had broken with his colleagues and decided to flee, they had made no plans so would have had to extemporise in choosing destinations and routes. Without ready-made plans, there would have been little time to organise their families. What was more, they reflected on the example of Gerard Lee Bevan.1
On 31 January ...
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