![]() ![]() at 1915 Logan Street, in downtown Denver. On November 15, 1922, gangster James Sloan, aka (Nick Trainor) and his girlfriend Florence Thompson started renting apartment # 37 at the Lemita Apts. Florence Thompson – “moll” of James Sloan - aka (Queen of the Mob).Margaret Burns – Wife /”moll” of Harold Burns.Harvey Bailey – aka (Big Jim Franklin).Frank Farland – aka (Curley Gordon) & (The Memphis Kid).Harold Burns - aka (Robert Leon Knapp). ![]() In 1920, the following five men arrived in Denver along with two women, whom were the common-law wives or girlfriends of Harold Burns and James Sloan: 14th Ave and then drive East on 14th Ave until turning right on Tremont St to Colfax, stopping one block up at the front of the Denver Mint. A Federal Reserve truck would drive down Lawrence to W. The Federal Reserve would pick up shipments of cash from the Denver Mint and deliver it to banks in the area. The building did not have adequate security or vaults to store cash going into circulation throughout the Rocky Mountain region, so the Denver Mint stored large cash deposits for the Fed from 1918 up until 1925. The first Federal Reserve Bank in Denver was in The Continental Trust Office Building at 16th & Lawrence from 1918 to 1925. A Federal Reserve Officer was killed in the line of duty as five gangsters engaged in a shootout with United States Mint Police. On a December morning in 1922, $200,000 was stolen from a Federal Reserve Bank delivery truck as it picked up its weekly cash shipment from the U.S. ![]()
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