From the Annals of  Crime –   In 1928, Marshall Ratliff was convicted for his role in the infamous “Santa Claus Bank Robbery.”  On December 23, 1927, Ratliff robbed the First National Bank in Cisco, TX, while wearing a Santa Claus outfit.  Ratliff was an ex-con who had lived in Cisco before being tracked down and imprisoned for a bank robbery by Cisco Chief of Police, G.E. “Bit” Bedford. Ratliff had been paroled just before the infamous bank robbery. Ratliff enlisted two men he had met in Huntsville and a fourth man who was supposedly a good safecracker. Ratliff knew that he would be recognized in Cisco and thus, decided to conceal his identity by disguising himself as Santa Claus.  For the fascinating and grisly details of the actual robbery – well, wait until Christmas time.