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a-n-ADMITS TEXASn- | ci~ jD-BANK ROBBERYESCAPED ARKANSAS CONVICTIS FACING POSSIBLEDEATH SENTENCEi\«tHV5araLINDEN, Tex., Oct. 23 (A9)—Char-lie Chapman, escaped Arkansas con- | (viet, pleaded guilty today to robbing j tthe First National Bank at Atlanta 1 August 31. |*Prosecutors had qualified jurors ;1 on the death penalty.Judge R. H. Harvey granted severances of trials for Buddy Sadler and O. H. Lindsey who escaped with Chapman from the Cummings prison Farm in Arkansas August 25. and are also accused of the Atlanta robbery.Chapman, Sadler and Lindsey lefta trial of violence through East Texas during the brief days of the freedom.With the defendant was his sister, Mrs. Charles Trott of Houston. Warden Tom Fisher of the Arkansas prison was also present.The three convicts were serving terms for bank robbery when they escaped.Armed citizens captured Lindsey and Chapman as they came from the Atlanta bank with their loot, aand wounded the latter. Sadler was picked up several days later.iii
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 24, 1936
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