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Posses Spread Net for Escaped Convict-KidnaperOil Scion Kidnaped By Fleeing Desperadoes;One InjuredSapulpa, Okla., (/P)—Posseraen stood watch on blockaded highways today for Roy Pete Traxler, the Southwest’s number one bad man, believed fleeing northward after releasing the kidnaped son of a wealthy New York oil man.TRAXLER HURTThe yoiith, 21-year-old Baird H. Markham, son of general 'Baird Markham, an official of the American petroleum institute was seized near Ada., Oklahoma. Traxler, his left arm shattered by a bullet, and two companions, all escaped Texas! convicts, took Markham’s automo-mile and forced him to accompany them.HELD 8 HOURSMarkham was released near here after eight hours during which time he said the men crisscrossed through, the country dodging a posse from which they had escaped by abandoning their own car and taking to the woods only shortly I before.I--
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Carroll Daily Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 16, 1937
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