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ESCAPED TEXAS CONVICTS EVADE SEARCHING POSSESHELD YOUNG NEW YORKER PRISONER DURING A WILD FLIGHT ACROSS OKLAHOMASAPULPA, Okla., July 16.—(#)—Roy “Pete” Tr^xler,wounded southwestern desperado, and two other Texas prison fugitives apparently had eluded Eastern Oklahoma posses today after releasing1 unharmed nearhere last night the Yale undergraduate son of a* New York oil man.The hostage, Baird H. Markham, Jr., son of General and Mra. Baird Markham of New York was recuperating from a harrowing eight-hour ride with the heavily-armed felons, who played hide-and-seek with officers prepared to shoot to kill.Later today Clinton W. Stein, chief of the federal bureau of investigation at Oklahoma City, was to show the 21-year-old Markham photographs of Traxler, Charlie Chapman and Fred Tindol, escaped Texas convicts, in an effort to make identification positive. 'The FBI entered the search when the desperadoes stole an automobile in TexaB on their flight fron- Eastham prison farm last week and entered Oklahoma.Police, sheriff’s officers and Oklahoma highway patrol were deployed over roads vin the Tulsa area, but it appeared the fugitives had escaped into Kansas or rk-ansas, still driving Markham’s car.Traxler told Markha mthe three were heading for Canada. O 111 r V* !*» *Y\ n n 1 rl 4 Vl #*% n M l»lnLn 4* t M
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Corsicana Daily Sun
Corsicana, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 16, 1937
Page 9
Full Page
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