The 1831 City Bank of New York Robbery
Sometime between when First Teller Lancaster S Burling locked up the vault in the City Bank of New York on Saturday, march 19, 1831 and when he opened the bank on Monday, someone entered the vault and stole the astounding sum of $240,000. It was not, as some newspapers at the time asserted, the first bank robbery in the United States. But is was the first large bank robbery in New York City.
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