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IS SOUGHT FOR♦Escaped Convict Who Broke JailiHere Reported in Holdup at Taylor’s Store.pio|Fu1dlt;ClUnihCole shoemnke, escaped convict, and Bert Welchamme?, a farmer youth of near Webbers Fall*, are the two men who held up half a dosen farmer* Sunday near Taylor** store, seven tulle* south of Webber* Falls, and escaped with about $200 in ca*1i anil watches and a revolver taken from the men, according to the information in the baud*of Sheriff John S. Barger.No charges can be filed against Shoe-UUcinIVhIT0V.d\\rciimake and his companion In connection w:bery, it appear*, however, mwith this robbery ! since it Js authoritatively stated that I tlie farmers who were victimized were engaged in a poker game in the woods near the store when the game was interrupted by tha robber*.d• idtlt;anS Officers are on the trail of Bhoemake ! r, I as a fugitive from justice. and hope to .; bring him in within a few days, lie j, j ts under sentence for highway robbery,| having broken from prison late in • o ! February.| Welchammer has served a term In the| state reform school, i *j Bhoemake was one of three prisoners who escaped from the county i jail here on April 32, 1915, while awaiting removal to McAlester to : serve prison terms. Shoemnke had : been convicted of highway robbery ( ^ 1 and sentenced to seven years. Ho ■ was recaptured three months later, i* Mid was shot n the* f-’-ot in the fightthat preceded ti!« capture. He served two years of his term, anil escaped about three months ago from Granite. I f; iDave Smith, who escaped with Shoe- 1^ make, was killed, with his brother, j Joe Smith, exactly one year later, In ta fight with officers*. yH. C. Burnett, the other of the trio _ s who broke jail, \va.lt; recaptured soon : ri afterward, servod a two-year term I and was released. He has made no if criminal record since that time, bo r j far as officers here know. j *j The highwayman who held up the r I farmers at Taylor’s store, were un- lt;masked, and were armed with re- ; i ; voivers. according to the story told f I Deputies Sheriff McAfee and Tremble, j who were at Taylor’s store Monday : afternoon.1dvA
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Muskogee Times Democrat
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Tue, Jun 04, 1918
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