Was there more to the Havelock results then meets the eye

[Dave2]

Matt posted an interesting warning about some Brantford results and it correlated with some parallel cautions I had done earlier.  But enough for the downside let us look at the potential upside.

I lost in the Havelock bid today and rather badly.  In those cases one must always ask oneself the question "What am I missing and in the case of Havelock it happened over 50 years ago just before the labour day weekend"

http://www.foxmeadowbooks.com/robbers.html
  
While they caught the robbers they never did get the money ($230,000) and which has never been circulated.  Maybe the winning bidder knows something I don't know.  

Why I am really kicking myself is after the tax sale odyssey we described in the spring we stopped in the same Hotel for a beer in Maynooth on our way home and maybe missed the information described here.  

http://coehillworld.com/2009/07/29/heres-mark-bonokoskis-take-on-the-mystery-230000-bank-robbers-may-have-stashed-near-coe-hill/

I wonder if the winner finds a couple of old milk containers.   or maybe that is why one of our senior members of is headed for Cuba to get some proper cigars.

[NDR]

Dave 2 -- Thanks for posting that link, as it's a great piece of local history that I wasn't aware of.  That means I've learned my one new fact for the day and can take it easy for the balance.

For those who are curious (and hopefully this is useful) the rough results (from my notes -- I may be corrected) for the HBM sale were:

1) House on Blairton, 5 bids, top one was $17200 (second was $17100)
2) Landlocked 25 acres, 1 bid around $5K
3) 21 acres, top bid out of 12 or so of $17999
4) 2.41 acres, no tenders

Pondering somewhat tangentially, I suppose with direct deposit these days the bank probably keeps a more modest amount of cash on hand now, eh?

Best to all.

[Frank]

Read Dave's bank robber book a few years ago...very good read, almost like a Canadian comedy.

No I didn't bid on the property in hopes of finding Dave's gold.

No I haven't left for a cigar....yet. 

[Dave2]

No I didn't bid on the property in hopes of finding Dave's gold.

No I haven't left for a cigar....yet.  

Oh you mean you already have your money.  Things get more and more interesting.  Amazing likeness from another famous case.

 The D.B. Cooper case in which the suspect was never caught.  

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/scams/DB_Cooper/index.html

[ErnestBidder]

 My gosh! The drawing on the left looks just like Frank!! Sharp eye, Dave2. Well, I think we're OK, as they found some of the DB Cooper money years ago, and I think they were expecting his bones to turn up, sometime down the road. I'd say more, but  a friend up Bancroft way just called, and wants me to go up there with my metal detector. Hasta la vista, baby!

  It's always good to read before you post, so, one day later, I filled in the rest of the first sentence.

[Dave2]

My gosh! The drawing on the left looks just like Frank!! Sharp eye, Dave2. Well, I think we're OK, as they found some of the DB Cooper money years ago, and I think they were expecting his bones to turn up, sometime down the road.

1.  Ernest Bidder - Frank is a very smart guy.  Just read his posts. It's much worse if you have to compete against him.  

2.  Read the link carefully and think of the following (this is the way Frank
     would do it):
     Borrow a tie from a friend from overseas and handle it with rubber gloves
     Leave it behind so everyone gets the wrong DNA
     Keep $5,000 of the money in bucket of water for a while.
     put them by the river
     pay a little boy to find them
    

3.  Now for the final part to see if you are smart like Frank:  For a beer
     Where do you spend the money so that the FBI and other US police will never      
   find it?

[ErnestBidder]

Dave2:

  This is the best I could come up with:

1-pay off Washington lobbyist
2-pay off Colombian drug lords
3-buy a yatch
4-give it to the Tory government
5-give it to J Trudeau
6-China
7-N Korea
8-Frank will hide it in his little steel box, for a fee
9-buy a checkerboard property
10-buy swamp property
11-go partners with a Nigerian
12-buy mutual funds
13-fresh out of ideas

  I'm not a puzzle guy (too old)

[Dave2]

Actually a spot where you can buy good cigars and enjoy your favourite sports

http://cubairsports.itgo.com/varaderoskydiving/index.htm  

knowing Frank though parachute jumping is too cold for him in november.  He probably used his telephone booth (see photo)  Of course the ability to go back to the time of the robbery might be a help in finding the missing money

[NDR]

Personally I'd lean towards Mexico, as I suspect US cash in Cuba goes back to the US in fairly short-order.  And it's easy to spend USD there.

Back to the mystery and allure of the Havelock robbery -- what if the second get away car was a Land Rover?  Perhaps the trail isn't completely cold yet...

[Frank]

OK guys, he's back.

It was Holguin this time.  Wrist hurst from holding Cerveza.  Supply of cigars has been restocked. 

Internet there has two speeds...slow, and slower...and no wifi.  I come back to find you guys having great fun, at my expense.

hola