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Title: 100 Police Officers Inspect the Scene
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: In Addition to the 100 police who answered the holdup alarm, thousands of spectators were attracted to the scene at the Southwest Bank. The curious came to view the battleground long after the shooting was over.

Title: Police Crouched Behind Parked Automobiles
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Police crouched behind parked autobmobiles in front of the Southwest Bank to exchange shots with holdup men inside. More than 40 shots were fired before two of the bandits were wounded and capture.

Title: Car Found At Shenandoah and Lemp
Date: 1953-04-26, 1953-04-26
Description: The fourth man sought in the amazing holdup attempt at the Southwest Bank was last seen about noon Friday when he stepped out of the automobile shown at left. The car, bearing a stolen Missouri license, was abandoned on Lemp avenue, near Shenandoah avenue. At right is the escape car driven away from the bank by the fourth man. It was found on a parking lot six blocks away from the bank. From left to right: Captain John Buck, Detective Walter Cliff and Captain Maurice O'Neil, and behind Detective Cliff is Sergeant Emmet Hahn.

Title: Scene of the Wild Gun Battle
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Scene of the wild gun battle, where police shot it out with a gang of Chicago bandits trapped as they held up the Southwest Bank. Thousands of persons were attracted to the area.

Title: Southwest Bank Employees and Customers
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Bank employees and customers poured out into the open air, weeping from the effects of tear gas bombs hurled into the building by police, as soon as the shooting was over.

Title: The Largest Bank Under One Roof--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1951-09-05, 1951-09-05
Description: The largest bank under one roof west of the Mississippi River, the Mercantile Trust Company, began operations yesterday, formed from the merger of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company and the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and located in the former's quarters in teh block bounded by Eighth and Seventh, Locust and St. Charles streets.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Drive-up Service
Date: 1967-06-04, 1967-06-04
Description: Customers of the Mercantile Trust Company use the bank drive up services.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1939-02-19, 1939-02-19
Description: Opening of the vault door at the Mercantile Trust Company.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Building
Description: Picture of the Mercantile Trust Company building

Title: Toy Pistol Found On Deck Above Rear Seat of Get-a-way Car
Date: 1954-09-08, 1954-09-08
Description: This toy pistol and length of pipe were found on the deck above the rear seat in the bandit's getaway car, which was abandoned two block away from the Southern Commercial and Savings Bank.

Title: Tellers' Windows
Date: 1954-09-08, 1954-09-08
Description: These tellers' windows in the Southern Commercial and Savings Bank at 7201 South Broadway were the targets of a lone bandit who obtained $31,130 in a holdup there yesterday. Thwarted in his effort to obtain any cash from Window No.1, the bandit moved to Window No.2 (indicated by arrow), repeated, his demands for money and got it.

Title: Wall Falls
Date: 1958-02-25, 1958-02-25
Description: A wall of the old Telegraphers' National Bank Building forms a pile of debris after its sudden collapse during wrecking operations at the Broadway and Pine street site yesterday.

Title: Broadway and Pine in 1878
Date: 1878, 1878
Description: The five story building on the corner was a gambling house half a century ago. Next door is shown a portion of a building where "Wilson's Minstrels" held forth. This spot eventually became the location of the Telegraphers National Bank.

Title: Telegraphers National Bank
Description: Telegraphers National Bank on the southeast corner of Broadway and Pine

Title: Scene Of $16,000 Robbery
Date: 1964-05-30, 1964-05-30
Description: Scene of $16,000 robbery is the Southwest Bank at Kingshighway and Southwest avenue. At right, the teller's cage at which the holdup occurred is checked to determine the amount taken.

Title: Southwest Bank Salutes South St. Louis Artists
Date: 1967-06-19, 1967-06-19
Description: I. A. Long, left, president of Southwest Bank, and F. A. Giacoma, right, vice president of the bank, examine some of the more than 100 works of Southwest St. Louis artists now on display in the bank's lobby. The display is open to the public and will be there until June 30.

Title: This Warning
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: This warning, chalked on the wall of the bank, was noticed several days ago by bank employees. They said they had been joking about it, never realizing that it would come true and add a mystery to the strange story.

Title: Bank Officials
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Bank officials, after the battle, counted the money which the bandits had scooped into the bag before they were caught in the police trap. Police said more than $141,000 was in the bag.

Title: Miss Marilyn Miller, Employee and Witness of Robbery
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Miss Marilyn Miller is a telephone operator at the Southwest Bank and was notified by the president of the bank to notify the police.

Title: Miss Luis Sperker, Employee of Southwest Bank and Witness of Robbery
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Miss Luis Sperker is a clerk at the Southwest Bank and was a witness to the robbery that took place.

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