The Napoleon of Crime
“The rich burghers of Boston believed their money was as safe as man could make it behind the grand façade of the bank, an imposing brick edifice at the corner of Boylston and Washington streets in the heart of the city. According to Sophie Lyons, Worth “made a tour of inspection of all the Boston banks and decided that the famous Boylston Bank, the biggest in the city, would suit him.” Max Shinburn would later claim to have had a hand in planning the robbery, but there is no evidence his expert...ise was either required or requested. Indeed, Shinburn’s exclusion from this “job” may have been the original source of the enmity between him and Worth. Ike Marsh, Bullard’s rather dim Irish sidekick in the train-robbery caper, was brought in on the heist, which was, like all the best plans, perfectly straightforward.Posing as William A. Judson and Co., dealers in health tonics, the partners rented the building adjacent to the bank and erected a partition across the window on which were displayed some two hundred bottles, containing, according to the labels mucilaged thereon, quantities of “Gray’s Oriental Tonic.”MoreLess
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