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nd acquitted on uc\. j, iuoi.Returns To Southwest JThe former contractor then re-artied in his old haunts in the “°iOU til W3SI. iOn luiv 2. 1932. hr was arrest- l|l( d at Muskogee, Okla., on a ,Q Marge of robbing a bank nt Min-on, Da. Returned in Minden. Chapman was tried, convicted and • un ententei from 0 to 14 years in cia he Louisiana state penitentiary. \otHe v.as transferred to the : sei ountv jiil at Shreveport and es- = tri •aped frum there Dec. 5, 1932. j pa Two months later, Feb. 23, j :n?1933, two Arkansas hanks were i robbed. The First National bank jat Hope yielded $24,000 and the **-• Citizens Bank and Trust com- j * pany of Camden yielded $25,000 . P* in loot. A Smackover bank also j ^ was robbed. | pCOfficers suspected Chapman, i w trailed him to near Van Buret*, j gf Ark., where he was wounded and : p-:aptured in a gun battle on March ■51. 1933. He v.as turned over to; Union county (El Dorado) offi-i m cers on April R and released under | p; $8,000 bond on Apr:! 26. Immed- ; r.t lately Chapman disappeared. HssjJ. bond was ordered forfeited June 9 ! s: and So-it:-. Arkansas officers again i took up the trail of the elusive ; bandit. . :Sheriff Arthur Eiiis nf Ouachita (Camden) county. Ark., finally brought about his capture at Gulfport. Miss., on Oct. 19, 1934.Ho was brought back to Camden where ne pleaded guilty to two charges and was sentenced to la years fur robbery and five years for burglary. Hr was received at the Atjcnnsas penitentiary Oct. 24.1934. and was sent back FI Dorado wh^rc he was sentenced to another 15 years for robbing the Smackover bank. Again he was returned to trie Arkansas prison.
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Paris News
Paris, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 01, 1938
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