...at the First National Bank building at the corner of Sixth and Front streets in Brainerd, where he worked as a clerk and messenger boy. He told The Dispatch in 1999 that he had recently started working at the bank, a building that still has...

...reference to his brush with Baby Face Nelson during the 1933 bank robbery at Brainerd's First National Bank. A clerk and messenger boy at the bank, Smith was struck in the jaw by the infamous bank robber in a heist that featured plenty of machine...