In 1952 he unsuccessfully defended notorious bank robbers of The Boyd Gang.
After a stakeout, Canada's most notorious bank robber of the day, Edwin Boyd, leader of the Boyd Gang, was captured in this house at 6:00AM on March 15, 1952.
In 1952, the jail was the subject of the first ever television news report on the CBC Television English network when the Boyd Gang, a notorious group of bank robbers, broke out of the facility for the second time.
Edwin Alonzo Boyd (April 2, 1914—May 17, 2002) was a Canadian criminal and leader of the Boyd Gang.
In 1952 he unsuccessfully defended the notorious bank robbers, The Boyd Gang.
The Boyd Gang - Edwin Alonzo Boyd's gang achieved national notoriety in the 1950s with a crime spree that began at the Roncesvalles branch of the Toronto Bank (across from the Dundas-Roncesvalles triangle), while maintaining a hideout at a girlfriend's apartment on Wright Avenue.
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