Quincy’s Ocean’s Eleven Episode Blog
Here you will find images and visual context to accompany our Ocean’s Eleven Episode Podcast available to listen to here.
First National Bank
Quincy’s First National Bank sat at the northeast corner of 4th and Hampshire. It’s value was considered one of the strongest of it’s kind. The extra security was needed as it was a United States depository, and constantly needed to have large amount of money on hand in case of large transactions happening in the area by the government.
Image Credit: of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County
Robert C. Scott
Born in Warsaw, IL, Robert C. Scott was a civil war veteran who later served as a deck hand on the Mississippi River. He would later turn to a life as crime as a common hotel thief, he was considered a gentlemen thief who soon found prominence in New York based criminal networks and would become an infamous bank robber heading up the Scott-Dunlap Gang who would rob the First National Bank in Quincy in 1874. Scott died in prison from Tuberculosis and is buried just a half mile south of Warsaw, IL.
Grave of Robert C. Scott located a half mile south of Warsaw on Highway 96 at the Wythe Congressional Church Cemetery.
James Dunlap
James Dunlap was a civil war veteran and a former brakeman on various railways. He would fall into a life of crime and become on of the countries top safecrackers. He was considered co-leader of the Scott-Dunlap Gang. Dunlap’s career would carry on long after Robert C. Scott’s death.
Image Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Pinkerton's, Inc. https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.82.21
Others involved in the Robbery
“Little Dave” Cummings
Image Credit: Professional Criminals of America Blog, https://criminalsrevised.blog/2018/10/26/50-david-cummings/
Thomas “Shang” Draper
Image Credit: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Draper_(criminal)
George Mason
Image Credit: Professional Criminals of America Blog, https://criminalsrevised.blog/2018/11/18/24-george-mason/
Northampton National Bank
In 1876 The Scott and Dunlap and others robber the Northampton National Bank in Massachussets. After the successful robbery, the gang would later be found out landing both Scott and Dunlap in prison. Robert C. Scott would die in prison from Turberulosis.
The bank building remains today, now a home to a smoke shop, the owners commissioned a mural depicting the famous robbery…and as a twist they give a nod to local boy Kevin Eastman….the man behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…who at one time owned the very building. See below for a local new article.