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A Strange Theft and the Bank Robbery That Followed
A bank teller describes a mobbed up robbery by a visitor, George H. Bell, who used a derringer to coerce the teller into drawing funds from his own account. The scheme unravelled as Bell fled with more than four thousand dollars, later died in Montana, and left a confession and Twenty thousand dollars in cash and mining stock to the teller who survived the ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Lewis
of Hope, Brown & Co
National Bank
George H. Bell
O. K
Bell
Neon
New York
George EL Bell
Stan
Bestir
West
Virginia City
Wells, Fargo & I
Madison River
Bannock City
Gallatin