205: The Santa Claus Bank Robbery

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the lead-up to Christmas, 1927, the good citizens of Cisco, Texas, were looking forward to celebrating the holiday with their nearest and dearest. But a group of men who rolled into town on the morning of December 23 from Wichita Falls had different ideas. Led by an ex-con in a Santa Suit, their actions at the town’s First National Bank went on to spurn one of the state’s biggest manhunts, ultimately leaving six men dead and numerous others wounded. What unfolded not just over the following week but the next couple of years afterward was equal parts a comedy of errors, a gripping tale of Wild West justice, and a tragedy for those who stepped up to protect and serve during one of the most audacious heists in Southern history. This is the story of the Santa Claus Bank Robbery.

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1:15.0	On December 23rd, 1927, the downtown area of the small north-central Texas town of
1:22.4	Cisco in Eastland County was busy
1:25.3	with last-minute shoppers getting ready for Christmas. Situated about a hundred
1:30.4	miles west of Fort Worth, Cisco was a bustling center that had thrived off the back of the
1:35.1	Texas oil boom in the mid to late 1910s. It had begun life as a railroad town and continued
1:42.1	to prosper thanks to coal mining.
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