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Many newspapers reported this was actually done by the "Arthur McCoy" gang. To correct errors, the gang telegraphed a report of the Gads Hill robbery to the St. Louis Dispatch newspaper for publication. [9] John Younger. The Adams Express Company, which owned the safe robbed at Gads Hill, hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Later that year, Seymour was the site of the world's first successful moving train robbery during peacetime. It was committed by the local Reno Gang, on October 6, 1866, just east of town, starting in the Adams Express Company car of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. Some members of the gang were later lynched at Hangman's Crossing outside ...
John and Simeon Reno of the Reno gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway passenger train. The men boarded the train and entered the an Adam Express Co. car and intimidated employee Elem Miller into giving them the keys, the men then emptied the safe and left the train once it stopped. [4] [5] Marshfield, Scott County, Indiana: 22 May 1868 ...
They broke into the express car, restrained the guard, and broke open a safe containing approximately $16,000. From the moving train, the three men pushed a larger safe over the side, where the rest of the gang was waiting. Unable to open the second safe, the gang fled as a large posse approached.
Two suspects have been charged with criminal homicide in a May 20, 2022 gang-related shooting at the West York Auto Spa Express on York Crossing Drive, killing Devin Zeigler of Springettsbury ...
The gang's later train robberies had a lighter touch. The gang held up passengers only twice, choosing in all other incidents to take only the contents of the express safe in the baggage car. John Newman Edwards made sure to highlight such techniques when creating an image of James as a kind of Robin Hood. Despite public sentiment toward the ...
Officials said that the owner of the vehicle was working on the car in his garage Tuesday night when the throttle of the vehicle got stuck.
Two men from Maryland have been charged by police in connection to the thefts of two cars from a dealership in Gettysburg in April. Jefferson Ventura, 18, and London Flores, 19, both of Silver ...