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The First National Bank of Cisco as it looked in 1927. The Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred on December 23, 1927, in the Central Texas town of Cisco.Marshall Ratliff, dressed as Santa Claus, along with Henry Helms and Robert Hill, all ex-cons, and Louis Davis, a relative of Helms, held up the First National Bank in Cisco.
Another son, Robert Thomas Ratliff (born 1967) of Mt. Pleasant, is the Republican Vice-Chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. Ratliff announced in 2003 that he would not run for reelection to the State Senate in 2004. [4] Instead he soon resigned the Senate seat [5] and was succeeded in a special election by Republican Kevin Eltife of ...
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...
Ratliff and his teammates also signed plenty of posters and photos. As the clock struck 8 p.m., Westside’s main field was cleared and 2002 team coach Jon Kelly picked up a microphone and ...
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Article 14.01 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states that a peace officer “or other person” can make an arrest without a warrant when an offense is committed in their presence or ...
Robert Leslie Roberson III was born on November 10, 1966, in Wood County, Texas.Official records showed that between 1991 and 1999, Roberson was convicted of burglary, theft and parole violations; he was released from prison in 2000.
On the morning of July 23, 1999, the Swisher County Sheriff's Department, in cooperation with local authorities, conducted a collective apprehension and arrest of 47 citizens in Tulia, Texas. [10] [11] Thirty-eight of the arrested were African American, [1] which amounted to approximately 10 to 20 percent of Tulia's African American population ...