A battered tombstone in Forest Hill Cemetery is the only visible reminder of one of Memphis’ most notorious robberies.
Eighty-seven years ago today, two Ford employees, chief accounting clerk Edgar McHenry and special agent Howard “Shorty” Gamble drove to a bank on Second Street to pick up that week’s payroll — a satchel containing $8,500, which was an enormous sum in those days.
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