 On March 3, 1949, three bank robbers walked into the Denmark State Bank and held the bank president, George DeBroux, at gunpoint, and placed nine other customers and employees in the open bank vault.The robbers made out with almost all of the $38,000 that the bank had on hand that day.Local residents formed armed posses in an attempt to catch the robbers, and county authorities set up road blocks in a 50-mile radius.