Harvey John Bailey (August 23, 1887-March 1, 1979), called "The Dean of American Bank Robbers", had a long and successful criminal career. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) One one the most successful bank robbers during the 1920s, walking off with over one million dollars during that time, Bailey is almost forgotten today.
His career
Born in West Virginia, Bailey robbed his first bank around 1920 and his last robbery was in Kingfisher, Oklahoma on September 9, 1933. West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by Kingfisher is a city in and the County seat of Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. He was in the Kansas St Prison July 8. 1932 until he escaped on June 1,1933. He was recaptured and found guilty of complicity in the Urschel Kidnapping and was sentenced to Life in Prison on October 7, 1933. George Kelly Barnes aka George R Kelly aka George "Machine Gun" Kelly ( July 18, 1895 — July 18, 1954) Originally sent to Leavenworth, he was transferred to Alcatraz on Sept. 1, 1934. He was returned to Leavenworth in 1946 and transferred in 1960 to Seagoville Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, where he remained until he was finally released on March 30, 1964.
One of the many possible suspects listed as one of the four assassins in the St. Valentines Day Massacre is Fred "Killer" Burke. The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago But in his 1973 autobiography, Bailey insisted that he and Burke were planning a bank robbery together in Calumet City, Illinois, about 20 miles south of the massacre site, at the time the massacre took place. Calumet City is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union.
Harvey Bailey died peacefully in Joplin, Missouri on March 1, 1979 at the age of 91. Joplin is a city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the U
Further reading
- Breuer, William B. J. Edgar Hoover and His G-Men. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1995. ISBN 0-275-94990-7
External links
- Harvey Bailey
- Harvey Bailey at Find-A-Grave
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