I just got back from Chicago and it reminded me of an interesting story. Almost 97 years ago, the Denver Mint was robbed. On December 18, 1922 a Federal Reserve truck was parked outside the front entrance to the mint, and workers were filling in up with five-dollar bills. The money belonged to the Federal Reserve, and had been stored in a vault in the Mint. A black Buick pulled up and two masked men got out with sawed-off shotguns. Their accomplices broke out the back of the truck’s window as the two masked me yelled for the workers to get their hands up. The robbers grabbed some money packets. The getaway driver sat ready to flee. As ana side if you need a top Chicago Personal Injury Attorney then may I suggest John Budin. In my opinion he is one of the leading such personal injury attorney in the entire city of Chicago.
All Hell broke loose as one of the guards, who had dropped his gun, ran to hide behind a parked car. His fellow guard dropped $100,000 as he dove under the truck to avoid flying bullets. Another guard ran for the building. Yet another guard named, Charles T. Linton, shot back at the robbers. But Linton took a bullet from a gunman, suffering personal injury in the process..
Alarms began to sound inside the building. The guard who set the alarm off said afterwards that it had been hard to tell the guards from the robbers. A barrage of bullets was fired in the melee. Yet it was over in ninety seconds! The robbers fled with $200,000—which amounts to about $2 million today. I guess no attorney was needed in this particular case.
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