Where the Money Was. The Memoirs of a Bank Robber by Willie Sutton

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By Willie Sutton

The Broadway Books Library of Larceny
Luc Sante, basic Editor

For greater than fifty years, Willie Sutton dedicated his boundless strength and undoubted genius completely to 2 actions at which he turned higher than any guy in historical past: breaking in and breaking out. The pursuits within the first example have been banks and within the moment, prisons. Unarguably America's most renowned financial institution robber, Willie by no means injured a soul, yet took on virtually 100 banks and departed 3 of America's so much escape-proof penitentiaries. this is often the stuff of myth--rascally and cautionary by means of turns--yet actual in each searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled element.

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Where the Money Was. The Memoirs of a Bank Robber

The Broadway Books Library of LarcenyLuc Sante, normal EditorFor greater than fifty years, Willie Sutton committed his boundless strength and undoubted genius solely to 2 actions at which he grew to become larger than any guy in historical past: breaking in and breaking out. The pursuits within the first example have been banks and within the moment, prisons.

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Not very much satisfaction there, and not very much money either. Working with others, you are at the mercy of your crime partners, and honor among thieves is a myth. You involve yourself with a very low grade of person when you become a thief. The vast majority is basically unstable and therefore unpredictable. I was convicted of the Manufacturers Trust job because for the third time in my life one of my crime partners betrayed me. Against all logic; against his whole track record. Against, even, his own self-interest.

I inserted a couple of hollowed-out corks up my nostrils to broaden my nose. From the closet, I took a light gray suit which was padded and cut to alter my silhouette. (Not that it would matter, I knew. The police would undoubtedly know that it was me, and if they wanted an identification they knew how to get it. But if it might not help, it certainly wouldn't hurt. And anyway . . ) Once I was satisfied with my appearance, I put the license plates and a dog chain into my briefcase and slipped out of the house.

My brother, Jimmy, on the other hand, had left school very early and gone to work in a coal yard. He was stolid, uncomplicated, and hard-working, very much like my father. Aunt Alice saw me as the member of the family with the greatest potentiality, and her natural inclinations took over. By the time I was ten or twelve, she was buying me suits that cost twelve or fourteen dollars, which was as much as short-pants suits could cost. She took me to Broadway shows and the best New York restaurants.

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