Stand by the Citizenry Three times since 1946, holdup men have tried and failed to rob the little Bank of Middleton at Middleton (pop. 350), Tenn. Last week, when a customer slipped out to report that a fourth holdup was in progress, Middleton's citizens reached for their guns. That was just too bad for a 36-year-old Memphis desperado named Robert Henry Bondurant.
Gunman Bondurant had forced a Memphis lumberman named Thomas L. Madden to drive him to Middleton, had taken Madden into the bank as a hostage, and was doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer,...
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