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James Killer Cunniffe (1896-October 31 1926) was an American bank robber who planned and successfully carried out the 1926 New Jersey mail robbery one of the most well-publicized thefts during the 1920s. On October 14 1926 he and seven others armed with submachine guns hijacked a U.S. mail truck in Elizabeth New Jersey and escaped with $161000.