![]() ![]() Beemer recently published “Notorious Kansas Bank Heists,” which he will discuss, along with the gunslingers and gangsters responsible for them, in his presentation. Researcher and author Rod Beemer, of Minneapolis, Kan., will be the keynote speaker. 31, at a meeting of the Franklin County Historical Society at the Neosho County Community College’s Ottawa campus, 900 E. Tales of this and other infamous bank robberies will be recounted during a presentation at 2 p.m. ![]() The robbers then locked all 15 people inside a vault used for safety deposit boxes before escaping in a Buick touring car they had left parked at the curb. “They forced 10 bank officials and employees and five customers to lie flat on the floor while they ransacked the safes and the cages and the vaults.” “There were no shots fired,” Barker said. 2, just after the bank opened, four men entered the bank, waving guns and ordering everyone inside to hold up their hands, according to Deborah Barker, executive director of the Franklin County Historical Society. For decades, the 1923 robbery of the First National Bank in Ottawa remained the biggest story in town.Ībout 9:05 a.m. ![]()
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