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Author Lankenau, John, author

Title An Ingenious Excuse : The True Story of Patrick Lyon and the First Great American Bank Robbery.

Publication Info. Chicago : Little Creek Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (332 pages)
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Contents Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Contents -- Map -- The Robbery } September 1 -- September 2, 1798 -- Part I: (Three Weeks Later) -- Fastened in the Net ... September 21, 1798 -- Part II: (Five Years Before) -- Come to America ... November 1793 -- The Mechanic ... November 1793 -- July 1795 -- Business for Myself ... 1796 -- 1797 -- Part III: (One Year Later) -- Stop the Work ... August 1 -- August 8, 1798 -- Damn It ... August 9 -- August 13, 1798 -- Went to a Peach Boat ... August 20 -- August 27, 1798 -- Far from Home ... August 28 -- September 4, 1798
Innocent People Suspected ... September 5 -- September 18, 1798 -- Part IV: (Three Days Later) -- A Red Pocketbook ... September 20, 1798 -- The Domestics Began to Quarrel ... September 20, 1798 (Later That Day) -- Here I Am ... September 21, 1798 -- Close Confinement ... September 21, 1798 (Later That Day) -- Without a Morsel ... September 22, 1798 -- Keep Quiet ... September 23, 1798 -- Part V -- Keen for the Reward ... Late September 1798 -- Dark Machinations ... Early October 1798 -- Good for Nothing ... October 21, 1798 -- Truth Being My Mistress ... October 21 -- October 28, 1798
We Have Got Hold of You ... October 29, 1798 -- Supposed Friends ... Late October 1798 -- Part VI -- Fresh Orders ... Early November 1798 -- Artist of the First Respectability ... November 9, 1798 -- At Those Words I Took Fire ... November 14, 1798 -- The Spirit of Independence ... Mid-November 1798 -- The Curtain Rose ... November 19, 1798 -- Don't Speak So Loud ... November 20, 1798 -- Part VII -- A Quire of Paper ... November 21 -- December 13, 1798 -- To My Great Surprise ... December 14, 1798 -- The Honest Man's Friend ... Late December 1798 -- Keep the Peace... Early January 1799
Bills of Indictment... Mid-January 1799 -- Buried in Oblivion ... Later in 1799 -- Part VIII: (Seven Years Later) -- Brought to the Bar ... December 13, 1805 -- More Careful of the Keys ... December 13, 1805 (Later That Day) -- Principle and Duty ... December 14, 1805 -- Nothing Harsh ... December 14, 1805 (Later That Day) -- I Was Certainly in Error ... December 16, 1805 -- The House Was Very Full ... December 16, 1805 (Minutes Later) -- Part IX -- Labyrinth of Absurdities ... December 16, 1805 (Later That Day) -- That Only Proves He Had Opened the Lock ... December 16, 1805 (Early Evening)
Monsters in Human Shape ... December 17, 1805 -- True Tint ... December 17, 1805 (Later That Day) -- Jingle of False Keys ... December 18, 1805 -- Charge to the Jury ... December 18, 1805 (Two Hours Later) -- Verdict: December 19, 1805 -- Epilogue: November 4, 1825 (Twenty Years Later) -- Source Notes -- About the Authors
Subject Lyon, Patrick, 1769-1829.
Bank of Pennsylvania.
Lyon, Patrick, 1769-1829
Bank of Pennsylvania
Bank robberies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
False imprisonment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bank robberies
False imprisonment
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrGtGVd3Pd8KWwFdVqRKd
Added Author Lankenau, Nancy.
Other Form: Print version: Lankenau, John and Nancy An Ingenious Excuse : The True Story of Patrick Lyon and the First Great American Bank Robbery Chicago : Little Creek Press,c2020 9781942586821
ISBN 9781942586838 (electronic bk.)
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