The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 201, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 1977 Page: 3 of 26
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UVALDE, Tex. (AP) - Joe'
«nd WiUli Newton still remem-
ber the night of June U, 1924,
like it wu only yesterday
It wm the night they suged
Amertcs i lut great (run rotr
beiy
It made them millionairei. II
only briefly.
Within days, the Newton
brother! and other member! of
their gang were behind bin
and the IS million in caah and
securities hauled from the Mil
Flyer outside Chicago
had been recovered
Joe returned to Tens alter
his stint at Leavenworth
"I got back down here to
breaking horses ... Went back
to something I knew how to
do," he said
"We never killed nobody,"
the brothers insist.
hall the people are lor you,"
Bui the brothers went back to
prison briefly in the IMQs "lor
robbing a bank we didn't " The
informants," said Joe
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them after they'd served a
short time
What about robhtt* banks to-
day. in 1977?
lieve I could still rob a bank I
know flow
I don't believe you could,"
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RAIF MILNUt Bruiui...
after that," recalled Joe, now
*H7I, during an interview at his
modest brick home in Uvalde
Our business was trying to
counters brother Joe
*>• oi Mr aad Mrs F W Hrti
get some money without kill-
mg,” explained Joe. "Nobody
Bank robbers haven't got a
Oh. sure. I could beat these
chance today," said Willis
Joe served three years in the
"They tell somebody before
ever lost an
is. the wheels Inside his bald
bead spinning wildly .
"You better
___bank robbery and get a Job,"
"Hie police have too many laughed Joe
entiary at Leavenworth,
.for the holdup Willis, 88,
they do it You rob a bank to-
day and everybody in the coun-
insurance
"It wu just one thief stealing
from another," Willis chimed
in. "If you don’t kill anybody,
William (.readpareauareMr.
aad Mis. L A. Mm af
served 12 yean for the same
Baytowa aad Mr. aad Mrs. F.
job
A third brother who wu in
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the gang. Willie, died In 1974
Now. Joe and Willis live quiet
Uvea in their hometown and
recount their put to a trail of
visitors and interviewers.
"I got sent to the penitentiary
when I wu 21," recalls Willis
of his early troubles. "It wu a
bum rap involving some stolen
cotton bales al Rising Star,
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Joe uys Willis got him into
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the bank robbing busineu in
the spring of 1921.
"I wu just an ole cowboy. I
broke horses (or hire, usually
for flO. It might take days to
do the Job, though.” Joe said.
When Joe and Willis linked
up in Oklahoma, after Willis
asked Joe to Join the "busi-
ness," the two staged "maybe
SO to 60" bank and train rob-
beries over the next few years
"There were lots of robberies
where we didn't get anything
and 1 can’t even remember all
of them," said Joe, who was
the lookout
Willis went inside the bank -
almost always at night when no
one was there - “and biowed
the safe
"Winter wu Uw beat (mm
because nobody would come
oi-tside to investigate the com-
motion It was too cold In the
summer people slept outside
and they'd come running if
something stirred." Joe said
"One night in Indiana we rob-
bed two banks, one on one cor-
ner and another on another cor-
ner,” said Joe. "We robbed two
banks in Hondo (Tex.) one
night, too.
"We got into the first bank
real easy and Willis started
working on the safe. He juggled
the handle and the combination
and it opened right up. We
were out of their in about 30
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bank around the corner, Let’s
go get it.’ Wc went into the oth-
er bank and cleaned it out in
two hours,” said Joe.
The brothers also recalled
their visit to the San Marcos
(Tex.) State Bank the night of
Jan. 5.1924.
Bank windows were shattered
and tattered money blown
around the bank and neighbor-
ing streets by the nitroglycerin
blast that opened the safe.
They were never arrested for
the robbery, which netted them
about $24,000.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 201, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 1977, newspaper, June 5, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145398/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.