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1934 · TEST ENTRY
The test, stated:Mishawaka's banks of the era were real and robbery-sized: the First National Bank of Mishawaka, holding national charter No. 5167; the West End State Bank line; and the Bank of Mishawaka, chartered and never opened, all carried in this build's business record. The record searched was the FBI's published case histories of the Dillinger and Nelson gangs, the county histories' bank chapters, and the press record reachable in digitized form.
The result is negative, printed as a finding: no robbery of a Mishawaka bank by any named gang, and no Dillinger-era or earlier bank robbery on this ground, stands in the record reached. The Bureau's own narratives fix the gang's St. Joseph County work at South Bend; the histories' Mishawaka chapters record the banks' foundings, panics weathered, and mergers without a robbery; and no targeted press search surfaced one.
Sources:
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, published case histories — the Dillinger and Nelson gang narratives, fixing the gang's county job at South Bend's Merchants National Bank, June 30, 1934
- Chas. C. Chapman & Co. (1880) and Timothy Edward Howard (1907), the Mishawaka and banking chapters — read first-hand
- The businesses fragment of this build — First National Bank of Mishawaka (charter No. 5167), the Bank of Mishawaka, the West End State Bank line
- U.S.