Tag: Joe Willetts

• On This Day in 1909 – The Santa Clara Valley Bank Robbery, the world’s first using a getaway car.

  

  To this day many people, including crime buffs, believe the world’s first bank robbery involving a getaway car was performed in France. The quasi-Anarchist Bonnot Gang are often credited with being first, escaping in a stolen Delauney-Belleville after robbing the Societe Generale bank in Chantilly, France on 21 December 1911. This isn’t accurate, although the…

  CrimeScribe

  August 3, 2020

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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