Flood v. City National Bank

About 8 o’clock a. m. on March 15, 1932, the officers of the City National Bank of Clinton, Iowa, were held up by robbers, and the bank robbed of $100,500. After binding the officers, the robbers placed the money in the sack and left in an automobile. They stopped on the road alongside of a farm near Camanche, Iowa. At that place there was a 25- or 30-foot embankment immediately south of the highway, on which there was a rubbish heap about 20 or 25 feet long, consisting of cans, wash boilers, automobile fenders, brush, and debris. At that place they changed clothes and threw those they had…