The shape of the record: statute, total, deaths

The close of this section is the shape of the whole record, stated once. The governing statute is 18 U.S.C. § 2113. Subsection (a) covers taking, or attempting to take, by force and violence or by intimidation, from the custody of any bank, credit union, or savings and loan association, and carries up to twenty years; a second paragraph of the same subsection covers entering such an institution with intent to commit a felony or larceny. Subsection (b) covers taking with intent to steal, graded by amount: property valued over $1,000 carries up to ten years, and $1,000 or under carries up to one year. Subsection (f) defines "bank," reaching member banks and institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; subsection (g) defines "credit union" as above. Every institution standing on this ground — the banks and the four credit-union branches named in this section — sits inside that one statute.

Tested against that statute and that ground, the totals are these. Bank robberies seated in the Granger CDP, all eras, in the court, press, and official record reached: none. Credit-union robberies at the four Granger branches: none. Robberies on this ground prosecuted in the modern federal sweeps that worked Fort Wayne, South Bend, Mishawaka, Marion, Kendallville, Hammond, and Michigan City: none. Deaths arising from a bank robbery on this ground: none. The record's shape is not a thin file or an unsearched corner; it is a named statute, four named branches, two documented regional series, three other Grangers' cases printed at boundary size, and a count of zero that each of those tests was run to break and did not.