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Mystery of the Merchants National Bank Heist Unfolds
Inspector Poe traces an elaborate two year plan by an actor posing as a scrub-woman who drilled the inner bank door with a hidden diamond drill. The thief killed two scrubbing women, robbed the vault, fled to New York, then to Simmy's opium den, and confessed after Poe’s interrogation and a dramatic stakeout.
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John Beggs
Merchants’ National of Boston
Helf
Fesa
Beggs
Behid
Begg
Merchants’ National of
Boston
Cribben
John Begg
Ordor
Bankers’ Protective Association
Mitchell
Merchants’ National
Hardy
Manhattan
Kensington
Christopher Poe
Mr. Hardy
Cridben
Poe
Turkey
New York
South Station
Burns
Grand Central
Cambridge
Liverpool
Grand Street
Allen
Rivington Street
Simmy
Matthew Walker
Merrie England
England