A Ten –Year-Old Bank Robber

A ten-year-old child in Missouri successfully robs bank of 92 dollars and is then apprehended by authorities.

Charged with the looting of the Noel State bank, at Joplin, Mo., Oliver P. Billings, ten years old, was arrested by Sheriff Carnell, ending a five weeks’ chase. The boy entered the bank by means of a rear window while Cashier Kissler was at dinner and looted the cash drawer of its entire contents, $92. The boy confessed.

“A Ten –Year-Old Bank Robber,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1853.