Colt .38 Special revolver taken from W.E. Garrett during the famous 1928 robbery of the First National Bank in Lamar Colorado now on extended loan to Big Timbers Museum. The museum standing on the KLMR curve since the mid 1900′s offers an excellent presentation of the robbery which has been written down in history due to many “firsts” in solving a crime. This Robbery was the first in which a single fingerprint actually solved the crime and convicted the murderer.

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Enjoy the history of the state, locations and events along the Santa Fe Trail, right in the middle of Historic Colorado’s Homesteads, at Lamar, Colorado.
http://bigtimbersmuseum.org
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The Colt .38 Special, currently owned by a nephew of W.E. Garrett, J.D. and Mary Kay Pittman, was found under Everett A. Kissinger’s body, one of the victims kidnapped in the robbery, later found dead in Liberal, Kansas was later returned to the owner. The gun stunk so bad that it was kept in the garage for many years, discoloration on the barrel of the gun may have been caused by blood stains from the victims.