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- <text id=90TT1194>
- <title>
- May 07, 1990: Died:Charlie Wilson
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 07, 1990 Dirty Words
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 83
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- <body>
- <p> DIED. Charlie Wilson, fiftyish, a member of the gang that
- staged the Aug. 8, 1963, British Great Train Robbery; after
- being shot by an unknown assailant; in Marbella, Spain. Wilson
- was part of the group that robbed a Royal Mail train traveling
- from Glasgow to London of (pounds) 2.6 million, then worth more
- than $7.3 million. Wilson was convicted and sentenced to 30
- years in prison but was paroled in 1978.
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- </body>
- </article>
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