Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assistant Cashier Ferndale Bank Ferndale, Calif...
...appropriation by the Government of nearly $4,000,000,000 of gold, not one dollar of which it ever lifted its finger to honestly acquire, not a dollar of it. ... No other civilized nation on the face of the globe has ever seized the gold of its central bank...
...lugging out heavy suitcases for several "wealthy Easterners." Next afternoon, thumbing through a detective magazine in the firehouse, he stared at likenesses of two of the generous strangers. Minutes later Tucson police started a manhunt for John Dillinger and his gang who week before had looted the First National Bank of East Chicago (TIME...
...tourist camp police picked up tall, scholarly Harry Pierpont (jailbreaker & murderer) who went with them meekly, suddenly pulled two guns when they tried to handcuff him, was subdued. In a radio store they picked up Charles Makley (jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...
...murder of Policeman O'Malley. In Ohio, Clark, Makley and Pierpont were wanted for killing Sheriff Jess L. Sarber when they delivered Dillinger from jail. Illinois had a variety of unpleasant charges against the quartet. Hence, they announced that they preferred being extradited to Wisconsin, where only a bank robbery charge awaited them. However a smart Indiana prosecutor swooped into town, extradited Dillinger, loaded him into an airplane and flew him, manacled and guarded by police, back to East Chicago...