This bank robbery info was interesting reading, but never caught my interest because I knew /hoped my husband's WHITE ancestors had never been to Iowa, except his father as a traveling salesmen who was too strait laced to rob a bank. Then it dawned on me that my side of the family had a connection to this bank robbery, and I knew that somewhere I had a Quimby 75 year anniversary book that had this info in it. This book has quite an interesting write up on the robbery in it that had occurred Dec. 16, 1903. Briefly- when the robbers escaped, they stole a horse team, buggy, harness from the brother of my great grandfather .Great grandfather was Ira Crawford, and his brother, Henry had a stable barn in near the bank in Quimby from whom they stole the team and buggy. Ira Crawford was a farmer, and Henry had a general store in Quimby and his wife Eva (Clites) was a dressmaker and hatmaker and had a little room in the store. Charles White was called; Charles "Jersey Slim" White, There are a number of pages on the topic, it likely could be order through inter library loan from Cherokee, IA, The article says, Jan. 19, 1904, only 36 days from their crime, the prisoners were taken to Anamosa to start serving their 7 year sentences. A 4th robber-Wilson ,m remained behind in the county jail in Cherokee, IA. One of the robbers took the authories over their escape route to Plymouth Co. IA where they had hidden the money in a haystack on the Henderson place. The robbers had only spent about $500 of the money. Ellen Researching; William White family born about 1810 in VA His son---James White born 1841 Bartholomew Co. IN, then to Sullivan County, IN buried Palmers Prairie Cemetery, Sullivan Co. IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas A Nelson" <tanelson1@juno.com> To: <White-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:46 AM Subject: [WHITE] White bank robber sentenced, 1904 > > > HAPPENINGS IN IOWA > > Robber Reveals Plunder. > > Before leaving for the penitentiary, Abner Hicks, one of the four robbers > of > the Quimby bank, piloted the officers to a haystack where the robbers had > > *********************************** > > > PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WHITE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >