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===Others=== Other arrests followed. Eight of the gang members and several associates were caught. The other arrests were made by Sgt Stan Davis and Probationary Constable Gordon 'Charlie' Case.<ref>{{cite news |title=Historic fiver's up for sale |url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1800494.mostviewed.historic_fivers_up_for_sale.php |access-date=1 November 2007 }}</ref> On Friday 16 August 1963, two people who had decided to take a morning stroll in [[Dorking]] Woods discovered a briefcase, a holdall and a camel-skin bag, all containing money. They called police, who also discovered another briefcase full of money in the woods. In total, a sum of Β£100,900 was found. They also found a camel-skin bag containing a receipt from a hotel ''Sonnenbichel'' in the German town of [[Bad Hindelang]] in the [[Bavarian Prealps]]. It was made out to Herr and Frau Field. Surrey police delivered the money and the receipt to Fewtrell and McArthur in Aylesbury, who knew by then that Brian Field was a clerk at James and Wheater who had acted in the purchase of Leatherslade Farm. They quickly confirmed through [[Interpol]] that Brian and Karin Field had stayed at ''Sonnenbichel'' in February that year. The police knew that Field had acted for Gordon Goody and other criminals. Several weeks later, the police went to Field's house to interview him. He calmly (for someone whose relatives had dumped a large part of the loot) provided a cover story that implicated [[Lennie Field]] as the purchaser of the farm and his boss John Wheater as the conveyancer. He admitted to visiting the farm on one occasion with Lennie Field, but said he assumed it was an investment of his brother Alexander Field, whom Brian Field had defended (unsuccessfully) in a recent court case. Field, not knowing the police had found a receipt, readily confirmed that he and his wife had been to Germany on a holiday and gave them the details of the place at which they had stayed. On 15 September 1963 Brian Field was arrested and his boss John Wheater was arrested two days later. Lennie Field had already been arrested on 14 September.<ref name="The Train Robbers 1978"/> Jack Slipper was involved in the capture of Roy James, Ronald Biggs, Jimmy Hussey and John Daly.
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