Smoking Money

A gang of men hijacked a train carrying over a million pounds in a safe. Overpowering the guards, they rigged up the safe with dynamite and waited in the adjoining carriage for the door of the safe to be blown open. They had used a particularly explosive form of dynamite, however, and the force of the explosion not only separated the part of the train that the men were in from that that the money was in, it also set light to the carriage containing the safe, reducing most of the money to a pile of ashes.

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