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Rube Burrow robbed another Texas & Pacific Express in a manner very similar to the robbery in Benbrook. [21] Genoa, Arkansas: 9 December 1887 Rube Burrow and Jim Brock The men stopped a St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railroad express train in Genoa, Arkansas.
Prior to the development of railroads, stagecoach robbery was common. [1] Especially in Europe and North America, stagecoaches and mail couriers were frequently targeted for their cargo. As coaches and horses were phased out in favor of trains, which could haul far more freight and passengers, so too did robbers adjust their targets. [2]
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The Gads Hill Train Robbery (also known as the Great Missouri Train Robbery) was a crime committed by the James–Younger Gang in Gads Hill, Missouri.In January 1874, five members of the James–Younger gang robbed a train and stole $12,000 (equivalent to $290,000 in 2023) [1] in cash.
A serial killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground in the 1990s. The desperate hunt for Angel Maturino Resendiz, alias Rafael Resendez-Ramirez – chronicled in ...
Henry (Lorenz) Loftus (born 1915) and Harry (Dwyer) Donaldson (born 1910) were two young men who made national headlines for their unsuccessful attempt to rob the Southern Pacific Railroad's Apache Limited in 1937. The last major train robbery in the United States, the two have been referred to as "the last of America's classic train robbers".
Increasingly over the last five years, police officials say, thieves from South American nations have entered the U.S. for the purpose of committing robberies. In the case of Chile, authorities ...
Bank robberies in the United States take place most often in mid-morning, on Fridays and in southern and western states, according to government statistics released on Tuesday.