I stole $16,000,000 confessions of a master safe cracker
"A fictionalized memoir by Herbert Emerson Wilson, a former priest-turned-master safe cracker, who claims he stole over $16,000,000 from safes and armoured cars in the late 1920s throughout the United States. After arrest and incarceration, he was convicted of murdering his crime partner during a bo...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Firefly Books,
2026.
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| Summary: | "A fictionalized memoir by Herbert Emerson Wilson, a former priest-turned-master safe cracker, who claims he stole over $16,000,000 from safes and armoured cars in the late 1920s throughout the United States. After arrest and incarceration, he was convicted of murdering his crime partner during a botched prison escape attempt."-- |
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| Item Description: | Previously published: New York: New American Library, 1956. |
| Physical Description: | 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780228106029 0228106028 |
| Author Notes: | Herbert Emerson Wilson (1881-1968) was born in Wyoming, Ontario, and fought in the Boer War before becoming ordained as a Baptist minister and relocated to San Diego, California. He left the clergy and fell into a life of crime and safe cracking. He was convicted of murdering his crime partner, Herb Cox, and served 12 years in San Quentin Prison. He later spent six years in Kingston and Prince Albert penitentiaries for defrauding a company over $100,000. Wilson was a prolific writer, and he collaborated with crime writer Thomas P. Kelley to write the story of his life as the king of the safe crackers. Thomas P. Kelley (1905-1982) was one of Canada's most prolific pulp fiction writers. He was said to have over 30 pseudonyms and was a frequent contributor to Uncanny Tales , a Canadian sci-fi pulp magazine. He published dozens of paperback books, including The Black Donnellys , Vengeance of the Black Donnellys and I Stole $16,000,000 . |
