FBI memoradum on Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, bank robberies, July 26, 1946.

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FBI memoradum on Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, bank robberies, July 26, 1946.

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Memorandum. Wyly's five page memorandum details six bank robberies staged in Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, between 1930 and 1944, in which the robber claimed possession of nitroglycerin: Stockyards National Bank, Fort Worth, August 9, 1930; Texas Electric Service Company, Fort Worth, March 8, 1937; Union Bank and Trust Company, Fort Worth, December 2, 1937; Fort Worth Morris Plan Bank, Fort Worth, January 21, 1943; Dallas Morris Plan Bank, Dallas, August 6, 1943; and Continental National Bank, Fort Worth, June 22, 1944.

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University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8116920

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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