As the newspapers reported itThe 1926 Chicago mail train robberies

1 day of original coverage, September 11, 1926, one clipping a day from the papers of 1926. Newest last, the way readers lived it.

Saturday, September 11, 1926

Chicago · the second train robbery in two days

As printed: POLICE HUNT FOR OLD-TIME GANG LEADER

ContextThree gunmen took $135,000 in payroll currency from a Grand Trunk mail car on the outskirts of Chicago yesterday, the second railway robbery in Illinois within thirty-six hours. Investigators see in it the cunning of the $500,000 Dearborn station mail robbery of 1921, for which 'Big Tim' Murphy went to Leavenworth.

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