Grand Forks (ND) Evening Times, May 7, 1910, p. 1. BOY BANDID GOT LIFE SENTENCE FOR ESCAPADE He Killed Bank Cashier and Wounded Two Others in Daring Holdup Corydon, Indiana, May 7-Thomas Jefferson Hoal, the Louisville boy bandit was found guilty of murder here today and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Hoal, who is 17 years old, last November made a daring single-handed attack on the Merchants' National Bank of New Albany, Indiana. He compelled a negro chauffeur to drive him to the bank at noon through the crowded streets of Louisville and New Albany. In the bank he became excited, shot and killed Cashier J. Hangary Fawcett, wounded President J. K. Woodward and also shot the negro chauffeur. Without securing any money, he dashed from the bank and attempted to cross the Ohio River to Louisville in a skiff, being captured in midstream by the police. His remarkable nerve greatly helped the police in saving him from a threatened lynching. Mental defectiveness was his defense