Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Smith (thief)
it received national and international (London) coverage in 1831 (articles popped right up in a news archive search) and considerable SUSTAINED coverage in the two centuries since.  Support move to 1831 City Bank New York Robbery. And  I added some details from one of the longer 1831 articles, and an 1831 article form a London paper to show international coverage. I am not sure who began citing it - erroneously - as "the first" or "the first recorded" U.S. bank robbery, but quite a large number of books do give a sentence or a paragraph of details of this robbery, as do news articles going back decades.  Plus the longer stories including those cited by Icewhiz and the 1831 article I added, which includes the fact that perp heisted 398 doubloon|gold doubloons
— User:E, 23:40, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:HEY (Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard)