In 1823, three masked men allegedly robbed a Marietta bank, but the real mystery is whether anyone in town wanted them caught.
The Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company was already in trouble. The town’s wild land boom had collapsed, property values had crashed, and debts threatened to ruin much of the community.
Then, one night, three masked men seized the bank’s cashier, held pistols to his chest, forced him to open the vault, and vanished …
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