Receipts For Bank Loot Reward

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Title: Receipts For Bank Loot Reward
Creator(s): Saint Louis Globe-Democrat
Date: 1931-02-27
1931-01-19
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Banks
Geographic Area: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Time Period: 1930-1939
Description: These are the receipts Ed Mays, president of the Grand National Bank, got when he gave the banks's insurance company cashier's checks for the $140,000 reward for the return of the $822,000 in bonds stolen from his bank. One check was for $65,000 and the other for $75,000, and both were dated January 19. The reciepts were signed by Emmett M. Mayers, resident vice president of the insurance company.
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Classification: GD002556; GDPS000674
Owner: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis