Volume 17 , Issue 8

October 1922 Bank Robberies

According to the Durant Weekly News, 27 October 1922, located in Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), on page one a small headline read: "Two Bank Robberies."

Oklahoma had two bank robberies less than two hours apart Tuesday of that week in October, 1922. At ten o'clock that morning three unmasked men swooped down on the First State Bank of Talala, near Claremore, and got away with $1,200 in cash and Liberty bonds.

About noon, four robbers, apparently boys in their teens entered the First State Bank of Belleville and got away with $2,500.

A posse got after both gangs, but at last reports on that day in October, 1922, they robbers were still at liberty.
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