該 1953 Great St. 路易銀行劫案

上週五, 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大道聖. 路易, MO. 在ST. 路易警方挫敗了這一劫, 這成為一個焦點 1959 電影, 偉大的聖. 路易銀行劫案. 這部電影是現在在公共領域.

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弗雷德·W. 鮑爾曼, 有經驗的銀行搶劫犯, 導致這一劫船員. 鮑爾曼是 60 歲, 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, 誰抵達之前，他們甚至收集了所有的錢.

司機, 格倫Chernick, who had been a star college football player, left when Chernick saw all the police arriving. 其中一個劫匪, 弗蘭克·維托, 誰已經從過去的罪行面臨其他刑事指控, 自殺. 聖. Louis police officers shot the last member of the crew, 威廉·舍爾, while Scholl tried to escape with a hostage.

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Bowerman tried the same tactic but Officer Mel Stein, 誰站在剛剛入口的銀行外, shot Bowerman. 斯坦說，人質是好清楚和鮑爾曼的側面進入視野, 他扣動了扳機. 衝擊敲鮑爾曼在地上, 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 年徒刑他們在搶劫部分. Glass caused a handful of bystanders’ minor injuries.

聖活. 路易 記錄了搶劫的實際事件對他們的事件之一. 蒂姆·奧尼爾也寫在了一個偉大的圖案一篇關於搶劫 聖. 聖路易斯郵調度 七月 25, 2012.

在 1959, Charles Guggenheim shot a film noir about the robbery and filmed it in St. 路易使用地點，例如在銀行, 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.