THE 1931 HASTINGS BANK JOB & The Bloody Bandit Trail

Softcover. In February 1931, "Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hendricks" and 3 others tied up 14 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 11 officers on the scene and make a getaway. The author recounts the crime and the grisly aftermath in the first account of the heist ever to be published. Illus., Afterword, Appendix, Bibliog. and Index. 159pp. trade size softcover. As new.