Johnnie - 1948-1970

At 2:50 o'clock P.M. on January 22, 1970, the last customer at the branch office of the State Bank of Vinton, at Garrison, Iowa, finished his business and left.The cashier was preparing to lock the door when another visitor appeared-his face masked.Three minutes later the intruder emerged, ran to his nearby car, whose motor had been left running, and speeded out of Garrison leaving a trail of dust.One man, observing the haste, took the car license number.The robber had no more than reached his car before the astonished banker had telephoned the sheriff and within minutes a deputy sheriff was on the way to Garrison-eight miles away.Within thirty minutes the deputy sheriff, two state high way patrolmen, and a representative of the FBI were at the scene-not to mention a dozen news men.But the services of the officers were not needed.At 3:06 P.M. an employee of Hawk Bilt Mfg.Company in Vinton, happened to look out of the window and saw a man with a bundle in his hand emerging from a car he had just driven into the plant's parking lot.