Boylston National Bank is robbed of nearly half a million dollars.

The bank is located on Washington Street. In committing the largest robbery in the city’s history to date, the robbers, led by Charles Bullard, had rented a building next door to the bank and tunneled through 36-inches of masonry walls. Bullard is subsequently captured and sentenced to Concord Prison, from which he later escapes. The bank is robbed again in 1897.*