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A second train robbery occurred in December 1867, when two members of the gang robbed another train leaving the Seymour depot. The robbers netted $8,000, which was turned over to the brothers. A third train, owned by the Ohio & Mississippi, was stopped by six members of the gang on July 10, though the Reno brothers were not involved.
Seymour, Indiana 6 October, 1866 John and Simeon Reno: John and Simeon Reno of the Reno gang robbed a 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 ...
Three days later, the Reno brothers had been identified as the gang's leaders and newspapers were recounting the notorious deeds of the family. [40] Later that year, Seymour was the site of the world's first successful peacetime train robbery, in which the train was moving.
Rage at Dawn is a 1955 American Technicolor Western film directed by Tim Whelan, and starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, and J. Carrol Naish.It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers, an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana, in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
On September 17, 1861, during the American Civil War a train carrying union troops fell through a sabotaged bridge at Huron, Indiana, injuring or killing 100. On October 6, 1866, the Adams Express Company car was robbed by the Reno Gang just east of Seymour, Indiana, becoming the first train robbery in U.S. history. The insolvent Ohio and ...
The name originated in 1868, as six members of the Reno Gang were lynched by a vigilante mob numbering over 100, known as the Scarlet Mask Society or the Jackson County Vigilance Committee. The lynchings occurred on July 20 and 24, 1868.
Frank Reno, one of the first lynching victims in Indiana. In the years following the American Civil War, southern Indiana experienced several high-profile criminal events. The Reno Gang began to terrorize the region in the immediate years after the war, becoming the first gang in the nation to begin robbing trains. They sacked rural towns ...
Jackson County was the site of the first recorded train robbery of a moving train in the United States. On October 6, 1866, the Reno Gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway train, making off with over $10,000. [4] Jackson County has the second longest 3-span covered bridge in the world; The Medora Covered Bridge. After a recent project to ...