Tus 1953 Cov me nyuam loj. Louis Bank nyiag

Txog rau hnub Friday, Tim 24, 1953, three men and a getaway driver tried to rob the Southwest Bank on the corner of Southwest Avenue and S. Kingshighway txoj kev loj hauv St. Louis, MO. Cov me nyuam. Louis Police foiled tus nyiag, twg los ua qhov kom pom tseeb ntawm ib tug 1959 yeeb yam, Tus Great St. Louis Bank nyiag. Naam yog tam sim no nyob rau hauv lub tsev sau.

Fred William Bowerman los FBI tseem xav sau – Public sau

Fred W. Bowerman, lub sij hawm thaum txog tej tubsab, coj cov neeg coob nyiag. Yog Bowerman 60 xyoo, while his crew were all in their twenties. Bowerman expected to get in and out of the bank quickly, but the robbery quickly went awry. One of the bank employees triggered a bank alarm notifying the local district officers, leej twg los txog ua ntej lawv tau twb sau txog tas nrho cov nyiaj.

Cov neeg tsav tsheb, Glenn Chernick, who had been a star college football player, left when Chernick saw all the police arriving. Yog ib tus tub sab, Frank Vito, uas yog twb tig xubntias lwm yam tsub txim ntawm ceebtoom dhau los, koom txoos cog lug yus tua yus. St. Louis police officers shot the last member of the crew, William Scholl, while Scholl tried to escape with a hostage.

Ntawm cov me nyuam Great tseem. Louis Bank nyiag – Kev muab kev Commons losntawm

Bowerman tried the same tactic but Officer Mel Stein, uas yog sawv xwb nraum tus nkag mus rau txhab cia nyiaj, shot Bowerman. Stein hais li rau khoo cov ntshiab zoo heev thiab Bowerman tus sab tuaj mus pom, nws squeezed cov txhais. Tej yam knocked Bowerman du, qhov uas me nyuam. Louis police officers disarmed Bowerman.

Bowerman died in a local hospital on May 2, 1953. The court sentenced both Scholl and Chernick to 25 xyoo nyob rau hauv tsev rau txim rau lawv qhov chaw rau lub nyiag. Glass caused a handful of bystanders’ minor injuries.

Nyob St. Louis thaum lub txoos yug tus nyiag rau ib lub sijhawm uas nws cov. Tim O'Neil kuj sau tau ib tug poj pictorial tshooj rau lub nyiag hauv lub St. Louis Post Dispatch rau lub Xya hli ntuj 25, 2012.

Nyob rau hauv 1959, Charles Guggenheim shot a film noir about the robbery and filmed it in St. Louis siv lwm qhov chaw zoo li no hauv txhab cia nyiaj, Tower Grove Park, and the old South City Famous-Barr store parking lot. Guggenheim changed Chernick’s name to George Fowler played by a young Steve McQueen. Guggenheim changed Bowerman’s name to John Egan, played by Crahan Denton. Guggenheim did not change the other people’s names. Guggenheim used a couple of the police officers, including Mel Stein, and bank employees in the film.