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130 Ave C. is all of those things, although she says she seldom thinks any more of her experience with the bank robbers who were led by Popejoy.ft was an item in Jack Maguire's column. Talk Of Texas, in the Sunday issue of The Brand that recalled the terrifying events, and Mrs Newsom paused in her housecleamng routine Monday morning to talk about themMaguire described Popejoy as a‘gambler, bank robber and bootlegger who operated in the Hutchinson County oil fields in the late 1920’s and early 1930V and “never objected to killing a man when necessary/'Mrs. Newsom adds that he robbed the bank where she worked at Stinnett, twice within a year He eventually was killed in an attempted jail break after the second holdup. In that escapade her husband, the late Guy Newsom, was kidnaped and “taken for a ride” in true gangland style of the periodTHE NEWSOMS went to Stinnett in 1929 to open a bank, the only one inHutchinson County. Stinnett was the county seat and larger then than the new town of Borger which had sprung upGuy Newsom will be the first mankilled/’ jfp V 1 I 111She remained in the vault until shefelt the robbers had time to leave, feeling sure “they weren't going to stay around there any longer than necessary.” Then she opened the door and telephoned for help. Peace officers, helpful and curious citizens thronged in and news of the robbery spread quickly.She was concerned only for her husband s safety, and it was night before he was brought back from a ranch near Panhandle where he had been let out of the robbers car after hours of driving through the oilfields while they debated whether to kill him.THE KIDNAP victim had ample time to observe all the men closely, and presence of mind enough to memorize the serial number stamped on one of the robber s gun, also the car mileage reading. Those figures and serial numbers on a bundle of new currency taken in the holdup helped in positive identification of the men later.His associates finally talked Popejoy out of killing the banker and they left him in a pasture several miles from a house
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Hereford Brand
Hereford, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1974
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