Saddle Tramps Botch Bank Robbery

Two saddle tramps watched from the shadows of the Wichita Falls station on Feb. 25, 1896 as the Rangers boarded the one o’clock train for Fort Worth. With the state lawmen gone at last, the City National Bank was ripe for the taking. Elmer “Kid” Lewis and Foster “Bill” Crawford earned their keep punching cattle before deciding crime had to pay better. But banditry demanded nerve and imagination,…