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The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & the Bloody Bandit Trail

In February 1931, "Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hendricks" and three others tied up fourteen employees at the Hastings National Bank and walked away with over $27,000 from the vault. They then returned home to plan a robbery of the First National Bank for the following day. Even though police quickly surrounded the house, the robbers managed to capture all eleven officers on the scene and make a getaway. Retired police lieutenant and historian Monty McCord recounts the crime and the grisly aftermath in the first account of the heist ever to be published.

Monty McCord

Monty McCord is a retired law enforcement officer and graduate of the FBI National Academy at Quantico, Virginia. He served as a deputy sheriff in two counties before retiring from the Hastings, Nebraska police department as a lieutenant. McCord is president of the Adams County Historical Society and a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild & Western Writers of America.

The History Press