It was a sunny, ordinary day the morning of March 13, 1934, but the events of the day were anything but regular. At close to 2:30 pm, a group of armed gangsters robbed the first national bank in Mason City, and escaped with approximately 52,000 dollars. The group included “Baby Face” Nelson, Homer Van Meter, John “Red” Hamilton, John Dillinger, Tommy Carroll, Eugene “Eddie” Green, either Red Forsythe or Joseph Burns, and, in some accounts, there was a seventh participant, most likely a woman.
The group parked their getaway automobile, which witness accounts reported was a blue buick sedan, on State Street close to the alley which led behind the bank. At least two of them remained by the getaway car. According to most sources, Tommy Carroll
The group parked their getaway automobile, which witness accounts reported was a blue buick sedan, on State Street close to the alley which led behind the bank. At least two of them remained by the getaway car. According to most sources, Tommy Carroll