In the days before fingerprinting, social security numbers and all our modern indentification measures, it was simple for a man to change his name as many times as he liked or needed. Many in Bailey's gang did this, which adds to the confusion.
Listed below are the banks Bailey is known to have robbed, there were most likely many, many more. Also listed are some of his accomplishes by the names they used at the time.
Hamilton County Bank of Ohio
$265,000 in cash and securities bonds, (good paper as Harvey would say.)
Due to a clause in the bank insurance policy, the insurance refused to cover the bonds. Later the bankers, working with the goverment managed to purchase around $73,000 of the bonds back for $28,000 through the underworld. They had also hoped to capture the bank robbers in the deal, but that never materialized.
United States Mint in Denver, Colorado
$200,000 in brand new $5 bills. It is believed that Nick Traynor, (alias Chaw Jimmie,) Frank McFarland, Alvin Johnston, Bobby Walker and Robert Knapp along with Bailey were in on this robbery.
Harvey always denied he was there. An officer named Charles Linton was killed during the robbery, which would explain Bailey's denial. Chaw Jimmie was also killed, his body was found later frozen stiff January 14 in a car parked in a garage on 1631 Gilpin Street and his share was later given to his mistress Florence.
No one was ever prosecuted for the Mint robbery.
The Federal Reserve reissued the notes soon after, making tracibilty impossible.
Later the authorities recovered around $80,000 of the loot through a deal, which included funds from the Hamilton County bank.
Laporte, Indiana
$140,000 in cash and bonds. Bailey, Alvin Johnston, Charles "Ed" Fitzgerald and Slim Jones, (real name Harry Jones,) were believed to have been the robbers.
Olmsted County Bank of Rochester, Minnesota
$30,000 in cash and a pile of mortgage bonds were taken. The bonds were worthless and later burned.
Farmers State of Vinton, Iowa
$52,000 in cash, $18,000 in bonds
Washington Court House, Ohio
$225,000 in cash and bonds.
Whitney Loan and Trust of Atlantic, Iowa
$55,000
National Bank of Sturgis, Minnesota
$80,000
Citizens State of Clinton, Indiana
$52,000 in cash and bonds
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