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Where did the first Armed Bank Robbery occur?

The first Armed Bank Robbery was actually staged in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1863. However, rather than use guns, the robbers used forged keys; the incident happened at noon, right when the town’s postmaster, a man known as Edward Green, walked into Malden Bank to get change.

Green was drunk and heavily indebted so he returned to the bank and shot the son of the bank president dead so he could walk away with $5,000, the equivalent of about $100,000 today. Unfortunately for Green, people grew suspicious when he became able to sort his debts all of a sudden and he was eventually found guilty of the crime.