Victim
Joseph Lee Heywood
- Born
- 12 August 1837
- Died
- 7 September 1876, aged about 39
- Record
- Wikidata Q6284884 · Wikipedia
Victim in Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang
Acting cashier of the First National Bank of Northfield; killed after refusing to open the safe.
1876–1882 · Northfield, Minnesota, and St. Joseph, Missouri · Killed before trial
Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour. Read the case.
Dated events
The raid on the First National Bank of Northfield fails; Heywood, Miller and Chadwell are killed and Gustafson is mortally wounded.