Shortly before noon on January 25, 1934, Clyde Barrow and his gang carried out a bank robbery at Central National Bank. They arrived in a stolen blue Plymouth, with Joe Palmer waiting in the running car while Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton entered the bank armed with shotguns. Inside, they subdued customer C. P. Little, cashiers May Vasser and W. A. Campbell, and later Pat Fulson and J. M. Butler, forcing most of them onto the floor while Clyde moved behind the counter, looted the cash drawers, and compelled employees to open the safe so he could take all the cash inside. Butler had grown suspicious after noticing the mud-covered car with its rear window knocked out, but when he entered the bank Raymond Hamilton disarmed him and forced him down with the others. The robbery was completed in less than fifteen minutes, and Clyde and Raymond escaped with $1,500, running down McKenna Street to the waiting car, where they briefly lowered the windshield in preparation for a possible chase and gunfight. E. G. Goodnight, the bank president, joined officers in pursuing them, but after about ten minutes the chase was abandoned when the bandits disappeared in the hills near Wister. Several days later, Zadoc Harrison found the blue Plymouth one mile north of Page, about 300-400 yards from the road. In keeping with the gang's usual method, Bonnie was probably waiting outside town with the getaway car.