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The shape of the record: statute, scale, and deaths

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The close · Osceola and Penn Township totals from the file itself

Federal bank robbery is 18 U.S.C. § 2113: subsection (a), robbery by force or intimidation, or entry with intent — fine and/or up to twenty years; (b), taking and carrying away more than $1,000 — up to ten years; (d), assault or jeopardy with a dangerous weapon — up to twenty-five years; (e), killing, or forcing accompaniment — at least ten years, and if death results, death or life imprisonment. Against that statute, this section's own totals for this ground print as the close: robberies of a bank on Osceola or Penn Township ground: 0. Deaths in a bank robbery on this ground: 0. The zeros are not an absence of record-keeping; they are the consequence of the Banks leg's tested finding — no bank ever seated here — cross-read against the Crime leg's robbery sweep. The county's one gang-era bank-robbery death, Patrolman Wagner's in South Bend in 1934, is boundary material and stands in the Crime leg where it belongs.

Sources: 18 U.S.C. § 2113; Businesses (Banks leg) and Crime & Public Safety (banked totals).

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Source: The shape of the record: statute, scale, and deaths, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/crime-public-safety/shape-of-the-record-statute-scale-and-deaths/