Feb. 12 – On this day in Montana
history in 1915, two armed men robbed the Farmers State Bank in Medicine Lake
in Sheridan County during broad daylight. In a daring horseback chase one of
the robbers was wounded and captured, but the other escaped into North Dakota
“with the posse hot on his trail.” He was later captured after a gunfight. In
its first report of the broad daylight robbery the Medicine Lake Wave said it
all in its headline: “Robbers Make a Daring Get-a-way with Boodle of Nearly
$3,000.”
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