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Bill Rice's avatar

The Gault saga has many bizarre elements I didn't have space to include in my original story, but will include in future articles. For example, Gault had successfully robbed a bank in Auburn 17 months earlier (getting $30,000 - the equivalent of almost $300,000 today). A native of Ohio, he had lived many years in a town in New York and first opened a chiropractor practice in Tuskegee (and also lived briefly in Theodore near Mobile, before buying a chiropractor practice in Prattvile). Albert Scarbrough was quoted in The Messenger as saying he saw Gault casing out a Troy bank a few weeks before Gault tried to rob the Ozark bank.

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JudyC's avatar

Love True Crime…this one is a thriller!

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Wow, understandably people in Troy are still shocked. It’s surprising no one has made a movie about it.

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Kevin Ingalls's avatar

Thanks Bill. I don’t think I ever heard about this.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks, Kevin. I hope this site eventually starts getting more reader comments (besides my own). This "free speech" forum is one of the best features of Substack imo.

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Doohmax's avatar

Well done, Bill. Reads like a detective movie script. But this one’s real.

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Kelcey's avatar

My father is sitting here with me. I just read him this story. He was David Alvin Jackson’s first cousin and best friend. My father was returning from Germany, via the bus station across the alley, and David was to be my dad’s ride. My dad was supposed to wait in the lobby until David finished work. Thankfully, this plan changed when my father decided to stop to see a friend on the way. Then he saw the news. My Dad talks about David a lot. He said this is the best record of events that he has seen. Thanks for the great story.

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