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nsa-n-n-d-ADMITS TEXASBANK ROBBERYESCAPED ARKANSAS CONVICTJIS FACING POSSIBLEDEATH SENTENCEhVIsctcVIya lotacLINDEN, Tex., Oct. 23 (/!’)—Charlie Chapman, escaped Arkansas con- | \j viet, pleaded guilty today to robbing j b;the First National Bank at Atlanta rl August 31. I®Prosecutors had qualified jurors j tion the death penalty. jJudge R. H. Harvey granted sev- | aiprances 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 left a 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 theyescaped.Armed citizens captured Lindseyand Chapman as they came, from the Atlanta bank with their loot, aand wounded the latter. Sadler I was picked up several days later.bec
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 24, 1936
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