Netflix has Lupin. Upstate NY had criminal aristocrat Max Shinburn.
Foiled in Schoharie: The final heist of the world-renowned, dapper King of Crooks
Dwight Grimm
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Maximilian Schoenbein photographed here in the 1890s and known more widely by his most popular pseudonym, “Baron” Max Shinburn was considered one of the world’s most successful bank robbers. His infamous career in the late 1800s figured prominently in upstate New York, where two sensational events unfolded in Saratoga Springs and Middleburgh.National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Pinkerton s, Inc., Styled by Joanne Georges
Maximilian Schoenbein had already been cooling his heels in prison for eight years when