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I volunteered to film the reenactment and edit the video, I am proud of the final cut. The Clarkdale Historical Society and Museum hosted the 3rd Annual Clarkdale Historic Home and Building Tour on December 10, 2011. As part of the event, the actors of the Blue Rose Theater reenacted a piece of Clarkdale's history: the 1928 robbery of the Bank of Arizona located at 907 Main Street in Clarkdale. Shortly before 11 a.m. on June 21, 1928, two armed men - Willard Forrester and Earl Nelson - entered the Bank of Arizona in downtown Clarkdale and robbed it. It is also fact that within two or three minutes after fleeing, bank robber Willard Forrester, while driving the getaway car, was shot and killed. Known to be in the bank, along with possibly a couple of customers, were bank manager David Saunders, cashier Bob Southard and teller Marian Marston. Outside the bank was Clarkdale lawman, 70-year-old James F. Roberts.
Earl Nelson, of Trafalgar and of Merton in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 November 1805 for the Rev. William Nelson, 2nd Baron Nelson, one month after the death of his younger brother Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, the famous naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars and victor of the Battle of Trafalgar of 21 October 1805 (during which he was killed in action). The title is extant, the present holder being Simon Nelson, 10t...
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