50 years ago: Chicago heist saga; first female barrister
The saga of the Chicago heist continued, with a story in the 2 Oct. 1975 edition of The Caymanian Compass on attorneys trying to recover from Cayman US$1.2 million of the $4.3 million stolen from a Chicago Armoured Express vault on 20 Oct. 1974.
US attorney Robert Doran, representing the Commercial Union Assurance Company of New York in seeking a court injunction to get the funds, had said that the company had refunded the depositors whose money had been stolen. The Compass noted it had been “reliably informed” that the attorney representing one of the men acquitted of the crime was also in Cayman to recover the money for his client, who the court ruled was not criminally implicated but “only the financial advisor”. For a more complete summary of the story, please see the below link:
Published on: Oct 04, 2025 01:20 PM