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9 and 7-Year-Old Brother and Sister Serial Thieves Rob Bank Before Being Turned In By Older Sibling
During the Great Depression, a pair of young children were already master criminals before they were even 10
Bank robbers are usually desperate adults, bent on trying to abscond with large amounts of money in a matter of mere moments. Not all such thieves fit that category, as during the Great Depression, a brother and sister, both under the age of 10, relieved a bank of two sacks of money. It was just another in a long line of crimes they committed. They might have gotten away with it, too, except they were ultimately turned into the police by their older sister, who turned down their offer of a bribe.
In 1932, nine-year-old John Harrington Jr. and seven-year-old Lillian Harington got into way more trouble than two siblings ever should. The two youngsters decided to break into the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company in their hometown of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Entry was gained through a bathroom window that had been left cracked open. The branch was closed at the time, and an employee had left two bags with money that had come from a local Sunday School (collections from the last service) in their desk.
