Interesting authentic historic reports from the bygone days in an oldfashioned world.
The old Danish outlaws from the old crimecases were seldom heavily armed or were so tough and rough as outlaws in other places round the world, maybe the reason was that the Danish laws were more leniently compared with the laws other countries used.
The rough hooligans from "The Lersoe", just outside Oesterbro. About the year 1900 a big gang of hooligans, both women and men had hideouts at the place. The area was a wilderness just nearby a dumping-ground and they lived in small huts.They were poor and commit lots of robberies and ravage in Copenhagen to subsist. In 1950 the hooligans disappered for other places and in the areas small wooden houses were built in a park.
"The Drilling X" aka Julius Framlev. The greengrocer from Copenhagen who for 15 years: 1916 - 1931 drilled and broke up strongboxes. He was called the Drilling X because of the special way he drilled the boxes.
"The King of Escape" Carl August Lorentzen who dug a 20 metre long escape tunnel down the earth under a prison in 1949. He wrote to the police: "Where there is a will, there is a way, too".
"The Smugler King" Bent Ricardu Madsen, his brother Leif and a friend called Alexander Blask was famous smuglers in Denmark in the years 1950 - 1970.
He had a "cowboy - gang" in Copenhagen and succeded in smugling about 4,3 millions cigarets from Est Germany to Denmark during 10 years. In those days it was an awful crime. Ricardu escaped to Torremolinos in Spain where he had a bar. The Danish tourists came here and got his autograph. After a couple of years in jail Ricardu afterwards had a fight with his rival Divan Sven AAbrandt.
Ricardu was married 7 times. The last wife commited suicide and so did also Ricardu in 1988. He was then 54 years old.
The Danish "Bonnie and Clyde" were Frank Mouridsen and his wife.
They were bankrobbers. The most welknown was "The balloon coup" in a bank at Frederikssundsvej.
Here Mouridsen succeded in robbing a bank by saying to the bank personell that a man with an riffle (it was only a broom stick with a balloon) was standing opposite the street in a building and aimed at an bottle of nitroglycerine (it was only water).
Mouridsen was also known as "The Tuborg Robber". Here he kidnapped the manager of The Tuborg Brewery and got the ransome.
Mouridsen and his wife had a stud farm in Sweden.
The strange phenomenon of the bombed phone box. In Copenhagen in the 1960' a psychopathtic "bomb-man" ravaged in Gladsaxe, Copenhagen. Back in those days it was seldom with bombs. At last the psychopat was wounded by his own bomb with an accident.
He was caught and imprisoned.
Svenn Aage Hasselstroem and his pal Linde were black-marketeers during World War II and a couple of years after the war.
Hasselstroem was called "The Spider".
"The Volvo Robber" aka Matti Markkanen was Finnish but lived in Denmark, Nordsjaelland.
He was 30 years old in 1967 and robbed many banks in Denmark. His getaway cars was always the Volvos. He succeded in 141 robberies during 2 years.
The old Danish outlaws were different, special and eccentric outlaws and their crimecases represents an impression of the old time in Denmark.
Historic article writing and researching brings important knowledge.
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