Outlaws & Scorned Women

The Santa Claus Bank Robbery

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Cisco, TX – 1927, the Golden Age of Crime. Two days before Christmas, Santa Claus walks into the First National Bank, kicking off a hailstorm of bullets and the biggest manhunt Texas had ever seen.

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Sources:

  • Pilcher, W.F. Santa Claus Bank Robbery, Texas State Historical Association
  • Sault, Spring The Santa Claus Bank Robbery: This Texas Town's Bloodiest Crime, TexasHillCountry.com
  • Fear, Force, and Leather: The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  • "Santa Claus, Why Did You Rob That Bank?", HometownByHandlebar.com
  • Site of the Santa Claus Bank Robbery, AtlasObscura.com
  • Coppedge, Clay The Dead Bank Robbery Bounty, TexasCoOpPower.com
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