The 1931 Hastings bank job and the bloody bandit trail

In February 1931, "Mr. & Mrs. RobertHendricks" and three others tied up fourteen employees at the Hastings NationalBank and walked away with over $27,000 from the vault.

They then returned hometo plan a robbery of the First National Bank for the following day.

Even thoughpolice quickly surrounded the house, the robbers managed to capture all elevenofficers on the scene and make a getaway.

Retired police lieutenant andhistorian Monty McCord recounts the crime and the grisly aftermath in the firstaccount of the heist ever to be published.