He was also slit across the throat, just enough to scare him, and pistol-whipped. The unarmed Heywood was shot out of frustration and “cold-blooded meanness” (Hakala’s words, not mine).While there was $15,000 in the Northfield bank vault, the outlaws made off with only $26.70 in cash, and not from the vault, which was protected by hero/cashier Heywood.This could explain why the gang targeted Northfield since the Ames’ family had money in the First National Bank. Adelbert’s father-in-law was Benjamin Butler, a Union general much-despised by Southerners. In following with that anti-Union theory, Hakala notes that Union General and post Civil War provisional governor of Mississippi Adelbert Ames was a member of the Northfield family-coincidentally Jesse Ames and sons-which owned the local Ames (flour) Mill.One theory surmises that the James-Younger Gang was trying to get back at the Union by robbing banks.The James-Younger Gang invented the “stick ‘em up” bank hold-up, conducting the first bank raid during daylight business hours, in which no war was going on, in Northfield.Jesse and Frank James’ father was a Baptist minister.However, here are some select pieces of information presented by Hakala which I find particularly interesting:
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