Thief and "extremely bad character" George Howard was part of a gang that blew up safes in several states. His daring escape ...

Inside, they found 20 sticks of gelignite, weighing around 2.5kg. Gelignite, invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, is a cheap explosive that cannot explode without a detonator. Mumbai Police ...

Howard, a career thief who loved to use gelignite to blow the doors off safes, was involved in two of Victoria's most notorious prison breaks in the 1940s. He busted out of Beechworth and ...