Indiana train robbery

[rockhound]

In the 1920's, the Reno brothers held up a train which they relieved of $80K in gold coins.
Later they held up another train and took $98K in gold coins. By then the state police were hot on their trail and they fled to Canada to escape authorities. Before they left they had to bury their gold in a hurry. It is buried between Rockford and Seymour near state route 31A
in Jackson county.They were never seen in the area again.
In Jefferson county, the Harris farmhouse(now the Bear farm) was used to smuggle slaves from the south during the civil war. Large amounts of money changed hands at this location
some of which is still buried today. The farmhouse is 3 miles NE of Madison at the mouth of a hollow on the Ohio river.

 

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[Jazdo]

Rockhound I lived in Seymour,In Jackson county for five years. Looked and researched it some more around the Rockford area outside of seymour. The problem could lie in the fact the White River could have washed the stash away. If it was buried along the River.

I know Rockford use to be a trading post or small village. I do know the area floods every year.
Hope this helps someone. It is definetly worth looking for.

 

[serpent]

Hello. Just to respond to the Reno brothers article, they in fact were seen again because they were extradited from Canada and housed in the New Albany jail. In one of the last recorded vigilante hangings in the state a group of vigilantes stormed the jail and hanged all of the Reno gang who were in custody, ending the gangs short reign of robbery and murder in the lawless days just after the civil war. The Reno's had been Union soldiers who after wars end could not readjust to the life of farming as the brothers had done prior to the war. About 5 years ago I read a historical account of this period in history that was written in the aftermath of the crime waves that followed the Civil war. ( within ten years I believe) The information from the book dispelled the gold coin theory as it specificaly stated that all of the money was in freshly printed "greenbacks". They made alot of money, they no doubt hid alot of it and they didnt live to spend it, but it was almost all paper. Hope this saves anyone some effort better spent.

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

One Reno Brother survived because he was already in prison when that robbery was committed. When he was released he went to that area and visited and searched every hideout and cache site that the gang used. Any Reno Gang money that remains would be on the home sites and property of the Reno Gang members. It would be their shares not a major cache of the entire gang. His search was very thorough and is not thought to have yielded anything for him. siegfried schlagrule