on February 21, 1923. The Rats also shot up Jelly Roll Hogan's house at 3035 Cass Avenue on two occasions. By now, public outrage at reached a fever pitch and people were scrambling to figure out how to get the gangs from shooting each other. By the spring of 1923, the Rats forced the battered Hogan Gang to sign a peace treaty. Now at peace, the Rats commenced a crime wave of robbery and murder in Missouri and Illinois. The gang was ruthless with anyone who crossed them, including their own members. In the midst of it all, Colbeck maintained the gang’s rackets. Headquartered at a St. Louis County roadhouse named the Maxwelton Club, the Rats increasingly looked toward their armed robberies for income. Armed robbery It would later be estimated that the Rats stole nearly $4.5 million worth in cash and property in a five-year period. Some of the bank robberies attributed to Egan's Rats include: the Baden Bank, St. Louis, of $59,000 on April 10, 1919; Lowell Bank, St. Louis of $11,877 on April 9, 1920; Hodiamont Bank, Wellston, Missouri, of $7,189 on October 24, 1921; State Bank of Dupo, Dupo, Illinois, of $10,000 on December 23, 1921; Gravois Bank, Affton, Missouri of $3,500 on March 6, 1922; Wellston Trust Company, Wellston, Missouri, of $22,000 on March 16, 1923; Park Savings Trust Company, St. Louis, of $2,380 on November 6, 1923; West St. Louis Trust Company, St. Louis, of $26,850 on January 15, 1924; Bank of Maplewood, Maplewood, Missouri of $8,500 on February 26, 1924; Granite City National Bank, Granite City, Illinois of $63,000 on April 25, 1924; and the Wellston Trust Company (again), Wellston, Missouri, of $40,000 on September 19, 1924. These bank robberies represent only a fraction of the heists Egan's Rats pulled off in the 1919-1924 window allotted by informant Ray Renard. By far, their most famous caper took place in downtown St. Louis on the morning of April 2, 1923, when they stuck up an armored mail truck after receiving a tip from the Cuckoo Gang. The Rats took control of the truck and made off with $2.4 million in cash and negotiable bonds. Gang breakup In 1924, Egan's Rats would suffer a crushing blow. Fearing for his life, imprisoned gang member Ray Renard started cooperating with federal prosecutors. On November 15, 1924, Colbeck, Louis "Red" Smith, Steve Ryan, David "Chippy" Robinson, Oliver Dougherty,