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The Brink's bank robbery...
The Brink's bank robbery...
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January 18, 1950
THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 18, 1950
* The "Great Brink's Robbery"
The front page has a three column, two line headline reading: "Gang Robs Armored Truck Firm of 'Over $1,00,000'". Just above this headline and report is a photo with the caption beginning: "At the scene of $1,000,000 robbery..." (see photos).
The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brinks Building in Boston, committed the day before this newspaper was published.
The robbery resulted in the theft of $1,218,211.19 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities. At the time, it was--as this report notes--the largest robbery in the history of the United States. Skillfully executed with only a bare minimum of clues left at the crime scene, the robbery was billed as "the crime of the century".
The robbery was the work of an eleven-member gang, all of whom were later arrested.
This issue is complete in 42 pages and is in very nice, clean condition save for some browning at the central fold.
Category: The 20th Century
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