Heading: (Crime, 1849 – Bank robbers in Missouri)
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Title: 1849 St. Louis bank robbery, Autograph Letter Signed
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Date Published: 1849
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H.Stagg. Autograph Letter Signed. St.Louis, Missouri, March 24, 1849. 1pg.+stampless address leaf. To Guy R. Phelps, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.:

"...last night some daring thieves effected an entrance into the Banking House of Messrs. W.Nisbet &; Co. of this city and by means of crow bar and pick axe forced their way into the valt and Iron safe in the cellar and extracted thereform some $30,000 in money chiefly in Bank notes. This heavy robbery it is supposed will cause a suspension or failure on the part of W.&; Co...." The Nisbet firm is well known to philatelic collectors because of their use of the very rare (and costly) 1845-46 St. Louis "Bear" postage stamps.

Some discoloration to edge otherwise very good