The Santa Claus Bank Robbery

Cisco, TX – 1927, the Golden Age of Crime. Two days before Christmas, Santa Claus walks into the First National Bank, kicking off a hailstorm of bullets and the biggest manhunt Texas had ever seen.

Sources:

• Pilcher, W.F. Santa Claus Bank Robbery, Texas State Historical Association
• Sault, Spring The Santa Claus Bank Robbery: This Texas Town's Bloodiest Crime, TexasHillCountry.com
• Fear, Force, and Leather: The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• "Santa Claus, Why Did You Rob That Bank?", HometownByHandlebar.com
• Site of the Santa Claus Bank Robbery, AtlasObscura.com
• Coppedge, Clay The Dead Bank Robbery Bounty, TexasCoOpPower.com
• The Fugitive