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The Reno Gang, also known as the Reno Brothers Gang and The Jackson Thieves, were a group of criminals that operated in the Midwestern United States during and just after the American Civil War. Though short-lived, the gang carried out the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history.
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 ...
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The most famous Indiana whitecap incident was the lynching of the Reno Gang in 1868. Sixty-five whitecaps sacked New Albany’s jail on Dec. 11 and hung the marauders from a stairwell.
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.
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.
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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.