Category: Bank robbers/robberies

Bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd drops in a hail of 93 bullets

Floyd’s last words? Asked by agent Melvin Purvis about the Kansas City Massacre, he snapped, “I won’t tell you anything, you son-of-a-bitch.”

Few records of the Glen Alum [WV] payroll robbery exist, but in 1959 O.H. Booton, retired ‘Daily News’ writer, recalled the 1914 incident.

Frank James received a celebrity trial. A large cheering crowd greeted his train as it arrived at the Huntsville depot.

Willie Davis, train cook, peers through hole in diner window made by bullet from bandit’s gun in the Great Train Robbery of 1949.

‘Bedlam’ is a true story firsthand account by America’s last moving train robber as told to author Wilson Casey.

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