该 1953 圣大. 路易银行劫案

上周五, 四月 24, 1953, three men and a getaway driver tried to rob the Southwest Bank on the corner of Southwest Avenue and S. Kingshighway大道圣. 路易, MO. 圣. 路易警方挫败了这一劫, 这成为一个焦点 1959 电影, 伟大的圣. 路易银行劫案. 这部电影是现在在公共领域.

弗雷德·威廉·鲍尔曼从FBI头号通缉犯名单 – 公共领域

弗雷德. 鲍尔曼, 一个有经验的银行抢劫犯, 带领船员劫. 鲍尔曼是 60 岁, 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, 谁抵达之前，他们甚至聚集了所有的钱.

司机, 格伦Chernick, who had been a star college football player, left when Chernick saw all the police arriving. 其中一名劫匪, 弗兰克·维托, 谁已经面临从过去的罪行，其他犯罪指控, 自杀. 圣. Louis police officers shot the last member of the crew, 威廉·舍尔, while Scholl tried to escape with a hostage.

尽管如此，从伟大的圣. 路易银行劫案 – 礼貌的风景

Bowerman tried the same tactic but Officer Mel Stein, 谁站在刚刚门外银行, shot Bowerman. 斯坦说作为人质的一致好评清晰鲍尔曼的身边映入眼帘, 他扣动了扳机. 影响鲍尔曼撞倒在地, where St. Louis police officers disarmed Bowerman.

Bowerman died in a local hospital on May 2, 1953. The court sentenced both Scholl and Chernick to 25 年徒刑他们在抢劫零部件. Glass caused a handful of bystanders’ minor injuries.

生活街. 路易 记录了抢劫的实际事件对他们的事件之一. 蒂姆·奥尼尔还写了一个伟大的画报上的文章，在抢劫 圣. 路易斯岗位派遣 七月 25, 2012.

在 1959, Charles Guggenheim shot a film noir about the robbery and filmed it in St. 路易使用地点，在银行, 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.