![]() ![]() It deals with ‘bad men,’ sure enough detectives, and a gang so organized and controlled by a few leading spirits that for years Nebraska bankers labored under the danger of robberies more apparent and more real than any other state in the nation. In part it said, The history of Nebraska bank robberies sounds like a chapter from a Diamond Dick magazine. One such article appeared prior to the Hastings bank robbery, fourteen years to the day, in fact, detailing Nebraska lawman Jim Malone’s battle with bank robbers in the early years of the twentieth century. Citizens often read newspaper accounts of these and other crimes throughout the state before the 1920s. Nor, as history shows us, did the robberies begin during those times. ![]() The state of Nebraska did not escape the rash of bank robberies that plagued the Midwest during the Roaring Twenties and Dirty Thirties. ![]() But first, a little background is in order. This is the story of the Hastings National Bank robbery of 1931 and the trail of blood spread by the Texas and Oklahoma bandits who perpetrated the crime, a trail that stretched into the 1950s. ![]()
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