Exhibit: 10 No. of Pages .... 3

Exhibit: 10
No. of Pages .... 3
- - - - - - -----
http://en.wik ipedia.orglwiki/Will ie_Sutton
Willie Sutton - Wikipedia, th e fTee encyclopedi,,-_
Willie Sutton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William "Willie" S utton (June 30, 1901 - N ovember 2, 1980) was a prQliti c American
bank robber. During hi s fort)' ~ y ear criminal career he stole an estimated $2 mi ll ion , and
eventually spent more than hal f of his adult life in prison and escaped three times. For his
Willie "The Actor" Sutton
talent at executing robberies in disguises, he gained two nicknames, "Will ie the Actor" and
"S lick Willie." Sulton is known, a lbeit apocryphall y, for the urban legend ttlar he said (hat
he robbed banks "because that's where the money is. "
Contents
• I Li fe summary
• 2 Career in crime
• 3 Final years
• 4 An urban legend
• 5 In popu lar culture
• 6 References
• 7 External links
FBI Ten Most Wall ted Fugitives
Charges
Desc ription
Life summary
Sutton was born into an Irish-American fam ily in an Irish neighborhood in Green point,
Brooklyn. He was th e fourth of five chi ldren, and did not go beyond the 8th grade of
schoo l. He turned to cri me at an early age, though throughoul his profess ional crimin al
career, he did not kill anyone. Described by Mafioso Donald Frankos as a little bright-eyed
Bank robbery
Born
June 30, 190 1
Died
November 2, 1980 (aged 79)
Spring Hill . Florida
Status
man who stood at 5 feel 7 inches, he was very talkative, chain-smoked hand rolled Bull
Addrd
March 20, 1950
Durham tobacco c igarettes, and di spensed mounds of Legal ad vice to any conv ict w illing to : Ca ught
February 1952
listen. In mates con sidered Sutton a '\vise old head !! in the pri son population. When
Number
It
incarcerated at "The Tombs" (Manhattan House of Detention) he did not have to worry
about assau lt because Mafia friends looked after him . In conversation w ith Donald Frankos
Ca ptured
he would sad ly rem ini sce about the v io lent and turbulent days in the 1920s and 19305
while he was most active in robbing banks an d \vould always tell fello w convicts that in his opi nion, during the days of Al Capone and
Charles Lucania, better known as Lucky Luciano, the crimi nalunden. . orld was the bloodiest. Gangsters from the time period, and many
incarcerated organized crim e mafia famil y leaders and made Matiosi Jo v~d ha ving Sutton around for com panionsh ip. He was always a
gentl em an , witty and non-vi olent. Frankos declared that Sutton made legendary bank thieves Jesse James and John Dillinger look like
amateurs.
SuUon married Louise Leudemann in 1929. She di vorced him while he was in jai l. Their daughter Jeanie was born the following year. His
second wife was Olga Kowalska, whom he married in 193 3. Hi s longest period of (legal) emp loyment lasted fo r 18 month s.
Sutton preferred the name Bill, but pol ice nicknamed him Will ie.
He robbed about 100 banks from the late 19205 to hi s final arrest in 1952-\-vith sl.)veraI prison terms in between . He was also a master at
breaking out of prisons. [eita/ion needed]
Career in crime
Sutton was an accomplished bank robber. He usually carried a pistol or a Thompson subrnachine gun. "You can't rob a bank on charm and
personality," he once observed . In an interviev,i in the Reader's Digest published shortly before his death, Sutton W,t5 asked if the gun s Ihat he
used in robberies were loaded . He respond ed that he never carried a loaded gun because som ebody might get hurt . He stole from the rich and
kept it, though publ ic opinion later turned him inlo a perverse type of Robin Hood figure. He allegedly never robbed a bank when a woman
screamed or a baby cried.
Sutton was captured and recommi tted in June 193 1, charged with assault and robbel)'. He did not complete his 30-year sentence, escaping on
December II , 1932, using a s mugg led gun and hol d ing a prison guard hostage. With the guard as leverage, Sutton acquired a 13.5-meter
(45 ft) ladder to scale the 9-m eter (30 ft) wall of the prison grounds.
On February 15, 1933, Sutton attempted to rob the Com Exchan ge Bank and Trust Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvani a. He came in
disguised as a postman, but an alert pa.sserby foiled the crime. S UUOIl c:st;aped. On January 15, 1934, he and hvo com pani on s broke into the
1 of3
1/28/201412: 14 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton
Willie Sutton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi<:-.
same bank through a sky light.
The FBI record observes:
Sutton also conducted a Broad\vay jewelry store robbery in broad daylight, impersonating a postal telegraph messenger. Sutton's other
disguises included a po lice officer, messenger and maintenance man . He usually arrived at banks or stores shortly before they opened
for business.
Suuon was apprehended on Fe bruary 5, 1934, and was sentenced to sen'e 25 to 50 years in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philade lphia,
Pennsylvania., for the machine gun robbe')' of lhe Corn Exchange Bank. On April 3, 1945, Sutton was one of 12 convicts who escaped the
institution through a tunnel. SUlton was recaptured the same day by Philadelphia po lice o1Ticer Mark Kehoe.
Sentenced to life imprisonment as a fourth tim e offender, Sutton ' .... as tran sferred to the Philadelphi a Co unty Prison. Holm esburg section of
Phi lade lphia, Pennsylvani a. On February 10, 194 7, Sutton and other pri so ners dressed up as pri son guards. The men carri ed two lad ders
across the prison yard to the wall after dark. Wh en the prison's searchli ghts hit him, Sutton yelled. "It's okay !" No one stopped him.
On March 20, 1950, Sutton was the eleventh listed on th e FBi's brand new FBi Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, created only a week earlier, on
March 14.
In Februa ry 1952, Sutton was captured by police afte r hav ing been recognized on a subway and fo ll owed by Arnold Schuster, a 24.year·old
Brooklyn clothing sa lesman and amateur detective. Schuster later appeared on televi sion and described how he had assisted in Sutton's
apprehension. Albert Anastasia., Mafia boss of the Gambino crime family, took a dislike to Schuster because he was a "squealer." According
to Mafia turncoat and government informant, Joe Valach i, Anastasia ordered the murder of Schuster, who was then shot dead outside his
home on March 9, 1952.
Judge Peter T. Farrell presided over a 1952 trial in which Sutton had been charged with th e 1950 heist of$63 ,942 (equal to $620,405 today)
from a branc.h of the Manu facturers Trust Company in Sunnys ide, Queens, part of more th an $2 million he was estimatt:d to have stolen from
various banks over the course of his career in crime. Sutton was found gui lty and g iven a sentence of30 to 120 years in Attica State Prison.[11
Farrell suspended Sutton's sentence in December J 969, ruling that Sutton's good be havior in prison and his deteriorating hea lth due to
emphysemajustificd the suspensio n of the sentence. After the ruling was de livered, Sutton said "Thank you, your Honor. God bless you" and
started crying as he was led Ollt of the court building. Sutton still had to rece ive a sLl spension of a separate 30-year-to·life sentence he had
received in Brooklyn in 1952 and then could be released on parole from a 19]0 conviction. [21
Final years
Will ie Sutton stole an estimated $2 million in hi s career, and spent more than half his adult li fe in
pri~(m .
A series of deci sions by the United States Supremt: Court in the 1960s led to hi s release on Chri stmas Eve, 1969, from Atti ca State Prison. He
was in ill health at th e tim e, suffering from emphysema and in need of an operation on the arteri es of his legs.
Once a free man, he spoke abo ut prison reform and consulted with banks on anti-robbery techniquc.s. In an ironic display, he made a
telev ision commercial for New Britain Bank and Trusl Co. in Connectic ul fo r thei r credit card wi th picture 10 on it. His lines were, "They
call it the 'face card.' Now when I say I'm Willie Sutton, people bel ieve me." Sutto n disliked Jimmy Carter and when Carter ran to r President
in 1976, SU Lton tol d an interviewer "J've never seen a bigge r confidcnce man in my life and J' ve been around some of the best in the
business".(3)
Sutton died in 1980 at the age of79; before thi s he had spent his last years with his sister in Spring Hill, Florida. He frequented the Spring
Hill Restaurant ,vh ere he kept to himself After Sutton's death, his famil y arranged a quiet burial in Brook ly n in the family plot. According to
findagrave.com his plot is under the family name of Bowles at Holy Cross Cemetery.
An urban legend
Sutton is famously - but apocryphally - supposed to have answered reporter Mitch Ohnstad, who asked why he robbed banks, by saying,
"because that's where the money is." The supposed quote formed the basi s of Sutton's law, often taught to medical students.
In his partly gho stwritten autobiography, Wh ere rhe lv/oney Was: The Memo irs of a Bank Robber (Viking Press, New York, 1976), Sutton
dismi ssed this 5tOI)', say ing:
The irony of using a bank robber's max im as an instrument for tcaching medic ine is compuunded, I will now confe ss, by (he fact
that I never said it. Th e cred it belongs to some enterprising reporter who apparently fe lt a need to fill out his copy...
Ifanybody had asked me, I'd have probably said it. ThaI's what al most anybody would say... it couldn't be more obvious.
Or could it?
200
1128/20 141 2: 14 AM
http://en.wikipedia.orglwiki/Willie _Sutton
Willie Sutton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_
Why did I rob banks? Because I enj oyed it. 1 loved it. I was more a live \\'hen I was inside it bank, ro bbing it, than at any other
time in my life. I enj oyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me
the money was the chips, that's all.
Go where the money is ... and go there often[ 4J[SI
Nevertheless, the legend has resulted in the "Willie Sutton rule," used in activity-b ased costing (ABC) or management accounting. The law
s tipulates that ABC should be applied "where the money is." meaning where the highest costs are incurred, and thus the highest potential of
over-all cost reductio n is. (6)
In popular culture
Actor Jay Novello portrayed Willie Sutton in "Th e Case of Willie Sutton", a 1952 episode of the
TV~s crics
Gang Busters.
A reference to Willie Sutton's apocryphal quo te is made in The Distinguished Gentleman, a 1992 comedy starring Eddie Murphy.
Sutton's li fe is the s ubject ora 201 1 documentary film In the Footsteps o/ Willie Sutton.(7HS)
The life of Wi llie Sutton is portrayed in the 20 12 novel
S U!10n
by J.R. Moehringer.
References
1.
2.
3.
4.
5,
A Pace, Eri c. "P(;tcr T. Farrell , 91; Judge Who Prcsided At the Sutton Trial" (http://www.nytimes. ooml1992/ 1 lIIOJobituaries/peter+fnrrell-91-judgewho-presided-at-the-sutton-tria1.html), The New York urnes, November 10, 1992 . Accessed October 11, 2009.
A Staff. '·A JA IL TERM LIFTED, SUlTON CR IES IN JO Y" (hnp:llselect.nytimes.com
IgslfabstTact.hlml?res=FA08 10FE3959 I A7493COA9 1789D95 F4D8685f9), The Ne w York Times, December 2. 1969. Accessed October II , 2009.
A lime magazjne (bnp:llwww.time.comftimeimagazine/artic1e!0.9 17 1.904436.OO.html)
A "Quotes: Wi ll ie Sutton" (httpJ/w\\'W.snopes.com/quoteslsuttonasp), Snopes.com
A Sutton, Willie, with Edward Linn, Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber (New York , New York: Broadway Books, 2004; first
published 1976 Viking Press, New York City, New York), page 160 (http://books.goog!e.comibooks?id=r.IvVaSMvDWcC&pg=PTl08&lpg'''PTI08&
dq=eonfess+never&f=fal se# \=onepage&q=eo nfesso/020never&l~false)
6.
A
7.
A
Cost and Effect, Kaplan, ItS. and Cooper, R., Harvard Business Schoo l Press, Doston MA, 1998, ISBN 0-87584-788-9
"In the Footsteps o f Willie Sutton" (http://ww,>,,'.williesutton.eomlWil1ieSuttonPressKit.pdf). Slloury Pr~1duCl i ol1s, LLC. Retrieved 20 11 - J 2-03.
8. ""I n the Footsteps of Will ie Sutton" (http://\\.ww.imdb.com/titleJUI959411 /). ln lernet MovieDatabase. Relrieved 2011-12-03.
Externallillks
• FBI website entry on William Sutton (http ://\.vww.tbi.gov/about-us/hi story/famous-cases/willic-sutton)
• "Willie Sutton, Urbane Scoundrel" :Vew York Times, February 17,2002 (http://q uery.nytimes.com
Igstlfullpage.htm 1'res=9C06E7DB 123 FF934A257 51 COA 9649C8863&sec=&spoll=&pagewanted=prillt)
• NOlable Names Database (NN DB) Willi e Sulton (http://www.nndb. c om/peop ic/ I16/000062927/)
• 'Willie Sutton Is Dead At 79', New York Times obituary, November 19, 1980 (hnp:llgroups.google.delgroll p/alt.obituaries
Imsg/95b 17a. 1eebba360?hl=de& fwe= 1)
• Contract Kille r: The Ex plosive Story o f the Mafia's Most Notorious Hit Man Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos by William Hoffman
and Lake Headley
Retrieved from ''http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titi c=Willie_ Sutton&oldid=588895850"
Categories: FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitiv es 190 1 births 1980 deaths 20th -century crimin als
American bank robbers
American peopl e convicted of assault American peop le convicted of robbery American peop le of Irish descent
i Deaths from emphysema i Disease-re lated deaths in Florida People from Brook lyn Si ng Sing
• This page was last mod ified on 3 January 2014 at 00:42.
• Text is availab le under the Creative Common s Attribution-ShareAlike License; additiona l terms may apply. By u sing thi s site, you
agree to the Term s oflJse and Privacy Policy.
Wikipedia® is a reg istered trademark of the Wikimed ia Foundati on, (nc., a non-profit organi zation.
300
t /28/ 20(4 t 2: (4 AM