Worked for me but just in case heres the story.
On June 14, 1924, four brothers from Texas robbed a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul mail train. This mail train held three million dollars in cash, negotiable securities and jewelry. The four brothers, Dock, Jess, Joe and Willis Newton, haling from Uvalde, Texas, are America’s most successful bank robbers. Known as The Newton Boys, they robbed over eighty banks and six trains between 1919 and 1924, from Texas to Canada. They felt it was acceptable to rob banks because banks were insured. In their minds, banks and insurance companies were the biggest criminals of all. Amazingly, they never killed anyone, or robbed women or children. All they wanted was the money.
Their career-ending train robbery was a heist planned for just outside of Chicago; Rondout, Illinois, to be exact. The bandits boarded the train in Chicago, forcing postal clerks to surrender sacks holding millions of dollars in securities and cash. The Newton Boys knew they couldn’t pull off the heist alone. One of the robbery masterminds was William J. Fahy, a Chicago postal inspector once rated as one of the best detectives in the business.
Decades later in an interview conducted by Jack Maguire, Joe Newton said, “…You can’t lose when you’ve got a real-life cop bossin’ the job. It had to be the work of an ‘insider’…” Local police caught up with the gunmen a few days later, but not all of the money was recovered. There were a total of eight men convicted in federal court, sentenced within seven months of the train heist.
The story of the Newton brothers was made into a movie in 1998 by director Richard Linklater titled “The Newton Boys.” It starred Matthew McConaughey as Willis, Skeet Ulrich as Joe, Ethan Hawke as Jess, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Dock.
On a personal note, my nephew’s grandmother tells a story of some strange men appearing at the door of her childhood home in June, 1924. Her mother would not let them in, and news of the Rondout train robbery reached them the following day.
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