Peter F Kenworthy

In 1929, C.D. Waggoner, a small, mild-mannered bank president from the mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, was prosecuted in federal court for the theft of half a million dollars from six of New York's most prominent banks. The robery was slick, an almost sleight-of-hand caper, and it was billed, at the time, as "the heist of the century." The fact of Waggoner's guilt was never in question. His motives, however, were vigorously disputed and remain,...