Volume 10 , Issue 22

1947 Bank Robbery In DesMoines, IA

This frontpage headlines was found in The Alva Review-Courier, Alva, OK, Friday, January 24, 1947, with the headlines: "Women Held For Bank Robberies."

Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 23, 1947 (UP) -- Mrs. Opal Dixon, 35-year-old waitress, was held in police custody today after she confessed staging two spectacular bank holdups because she was "tired of living on nothing." Chief of Police Jack Brophy said Mrs. Dixon had signed a statement admitting a St. Louis bank robbery last December 26, as well as yesterday's $2150 holdup of the Des Moines Bank and Trust company, in which she threatened to "blow the bank up" with the contents of a hypodermic syringe.

Chief Brophy said she would be prosecuted on a bank robbery charge which under Iowa law carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
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