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The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & the Bloody Bandit Trail

The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & the Bloody Bandit Trail

by Monty McCord
The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & the Bloody Bandit Trail
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The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & the Bloody Bandit Trail

The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & the Bloody Bandit Trail

by Monty McCord

Overview

In February 1931, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hendricks" and three others tied up fourteen employees at the Hastings National Bank and walked away with over $27,000 from the vault. They then returned home to plan a robbery of the First National Bank for the following day. Even though police quickly surrounded the house, the robbers managed to capture all eleven officers on the scene and make a getaway. Retired police lieutenant and historian Monty McCord recounts the crime and the grisly aftermath in the first account of the heist ever to be published."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609497965
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 07/16/2013
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 1,111,048
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Monty McCord is a retired law enforcement officer and graduate of the FBI National Academy at Quantico, Virginia. He served as a deputy sheriff in two counties before retiring from the Hastings, Nebraska police department as a lieutenant. McCord is president of the Adams County Historical Society and a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild & Western Writers of America.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

Part I

1 Bank Job 16

2 Hide-Out, Shootout and Hostages 24

3 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hendricks 33

4 Who Were Those Masked Men? 47

5 The Hunt 57

6 Jim Thomas, Trial and Escape 62

7 Velma Creighton's Despicable Act 73

8 A Startling Detective Story 83

Part II

9 Jimmy Creighton, Coyne Hatten and Jeff City 88

10 Samuel O'Dell and Big Sky Country 97

11 Jim Clyde Thomas, Baxter Honey and Benny Binion 101

12 Jim Clyde, Dr. Hunt and the Texas Rangers 108

13 Jim Clyde and "The Cat" 116

14 Texas Badman Forgets His Gun 120

15 Creighton and the '54 Missouri Penitentiary Riot 126

16 A Copper Reunion 132

Afterword 137

Appendix: Places and Tombstones 143

Bibliography 153

Index 157

About the Author 160

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