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American bank robber
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Edward Smith committed one of the first bank robberies in the United States on March 19, 1831, stealing $245,000 from the City Bank on Wall Street in New York City using a set of copied keys. He spent $60,000 before he was caught. He was eventually arrested, convicted, and sentenced to five years in Sing Sing prison.