April 2, 2024 Press Release from the Hancock Historical Museum: Findlay, OH – Pack a lunch and head to the Hancock Historical Museum for its monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series at 12 p.m. Thursday, April 4th discussing “Four Guys Walk into a Bluffton Bank…”, the story of Public Enemy Number 1, John Dillinger’s raid on a bank in Bluffton, presented by Fred Steiner, author, and retired journalist.
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LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Allen County Museum and Historical Society brought in a Bluffton history expert to talk about the robbery of a local ban…
Fred Steiner talked about his presentation called “4 Guys Walk into a Bluffton Bank and the Rest is Bluffton Oral History”. It was August 14th, 1933, the day that John Dillinger and his gang were in Bluffton. Steiner says there is one firsthand account of the incident that was written, and dozens of oral history accounts passed down the generations that are not quite accurate.