Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters (True Crime) by Beemer Rod

Author:Beemer, Rod [Beemer, Rod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

A diagram showing the relationship between the two banks and the alley where the horses were tied. Courtesy Coffeyville Historical Society .

It is interesting to note that there wasn’t a single armed man in the area, including the city marshal, at the time the robbery began. All of the firearms used against the gang were furnished by the merchants with the exception of one Winchester rifle.

Inside the Condon & Co. Bank, Grat Dalton, Bill Power and Dick Broadwell were in trouble from the very beginning due to the fact that the large plate-glass windows allowed outsiders to observe the robbery in progress. And it gave the armed citizens a target to shoot at.

Grat, in charge of robbing the Condon Bank, was easily fooled by cashier C.M. Ball, who told Grat that the burglar-proof chest in the vault was on a timer and couldn’t be opened for another ten minutes. Grat stated that they could wait and then asked where the gold was. Ball said they didn’t have any. Grat gave Ball a two-bushel grain sack and ordered one of the bank proprietors, C.T. Carpenter, to put all the money into the sack. Carpenter complied, and when Grat asked how much cash they showed on the books, he was told $4,000: $3,000 in silver and $1,000 in currency.

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