Volume 18 , Issue 12

1936 - Bandits Lose $5 In Raid On Bank in State

Here is an interesting story we found in the Miami Daily News-Record, Miami, Oklahoma, dated 22 June 1936, Monday, page 1: Bandits Lose $5 In Raid On Bank In State."

Found on Newspapers.com

Buffalo, Okla., June 22 (1936) - Two men attempted to rob the Oklahoma State bank of Buffalo at 11:57 o'clock, just three minutes before the bank closed for the noon hour. One of the bandits accidentally discharged his pistol after locking the bank president and three others officers and employees in the vault and then fled without obtaining any money.

John F. Fielder, president, said the two men came into the bank just before closing time and one asked for change for a $5 bill. The bandit pointed a pistol at Fielder and forced all persons in the bank to put up their hands and get into the vault.

Just after Fielder, J. C. Powers, cashier, Mrs. J. C. Powers, assistant cashier and Viola Cook, bookkeeper, had been locked in the vault, they heard a pistol shot and the two men fled from he bank and escaped in a light green Ford V-8 sedan and headed west. They even left the $5 bill, which had been handed to the banker with a request for change when they entered.

Fielder and the others freed themselves from the vault within three or four minutes and spread the alarm. A posse was organized to chase the bandits, but the two were believed to have too long a lead to make immediate capture possible. The men fled west into the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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