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The Andalusian Express Crime: The 1924 mail car robbery

The Andalusian Express Crime: The 1924 mail car robbery

Campos, Manuel

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798274247696
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 12 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
On the night of April 11, 1924, the express train that departed Madrid (8:20 p.m.) bound for Andalusia unknowingly carried an entire country in its luggage. In the mail car, Ángel Ors Pérez and Santos Lozano León were performing the precise ritual of the table, the stamp, and the signature. Minutes later, a gang would enter through the window-taking advantage of a broken door-armed with stamping pliers and a handgun. The train continued on; the country awoke to its crime of the century.

This novel reconstructs, with literary flair and documentary rigor, the heist and its aftermath: the stop in Aranjuez, the taxi escape to Alcázar, the hunt and down of the perpetrators (Teruel's suicide, the execution by garrote of Sánchez Navarrete, Piqueras, and Molina on May 9, 1924, and Donday's 20-year sentence), and the bitter reckoning of the actual loot-less than 300,000 pesetas-which never justified so much bloodshed.

Through chapters that alternate between action and origins (the robbers' childhoods, their codes, and their fears), and an investigation that culminates in a summary trial, this work shows how a train car changed the country's security: new protocols, reinforced cars, escorts, and the impetus that would eventually crystallize into a Railway Tercio (Spanish Army's special unit).

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