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Bill Miner was the last of the great train robbers and is said to be Canada鈥檚 first. He began his criminal career in the 1860s when he reportedly聽聽while robbing stagecoaches. By the time he moved to BC in 1903, he was a seasoned sixty year-old train robber. The following year a train was robbed near Mission, allegedly by Miner and his gang. But the job that landed him in the BC Penitentiary was a botched 1906 train robbery near Kamloops. After serving less than a year of his life sentence, Bill Miner and two accomplices聽.
Miner became a folk hero because, as the newspapers of the day聽, he was a real-life Robin Hood. Under the alias George Edwards, Miner had made many friends in the short time he lived in BC, and everyone who knew him attested to his generosity and kindness. The many anecdotes about him include claims that it was not unusual for him to pay off someone鈥檚 mortgage or, as a trained shoemaker, to cobble shoes and give them to poor children. His good manners earned him the nickname the 鈥淕entleman Bandit鈥� and in the many heists he was involved in, Bill Miner never killed anyone.
When a 麻豆传媒映画to Seattle train was robbed and one of the trainmen was bashed in the head in 1908, Miner wrote an indignant letter to the聽麻豆传媒映画World聽denying rumours that it was his work. Despite his fugitive status, he considered himself on a sort of parole, he said, and had come to realize that 鈥測ou can get money here [in Seattle] without taking any risks. Business is business and I want to be left alone.鈥� Besides, there was no one there 鈥渢hat I would go into cahoots with in a hold-up anyway.鈥� Miner insisted that he had never in his life "bashed a man鈥檚 head to get the cash.鈥�
Another time聽聽that he did not 鈥渃onsider it a crime to lift money from rich corporations. It is not a crime, it is not a sin, it is neither immoral nor wrong. On the contrary 鈥� I have done what I have done and can look God and man in the face unashamed.鈥�
Miner鈥檚 stint as a businessman 鈥渙n parole鈥� didn鈥檛 last long before he relapsed into his robbing ways. He never returned to Canada but landed in a Georgia prison,聽聽after his first conviction, where he died of natural causes in 1913.
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