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who refused to start her automobile, Sawyer tried and failing.proceeded with the others to the home of Olin Morris, where he released the Grays and forced Morris and his son to accompanyhim and the others in the Morris car.| Reaching a farm seven miles north of Gracemont, Sawyer stepped from the car and told hisvictims to drive on. Then hewalked to the Goodfellow home and forced fhem to drive him | toward Oklahoma City.i The desperado was sentenced 1 jIto life imprisonment for murder i in Bryan county in 1920. He tlt;i«escaped In April. 1922. and later , was sentenced to life for robbery 11 of a Fort Scott, Kans.. hank. S While Sawyer was struggling fruitlessly in a police net. two men believed to be other Kansas prison fugitives robbed a filling station near Rammoth Springs. Ark.. forcing the attendant. Cleo Reeves, to accompany them to the Missouri line.' firing at another man. J. D. | Brookout. on the way.Meantime, the hunt for the other fugitive convicts and for Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, notorious desperado, and his henchman, Adam Richetti. seen near Wewoka Saturday, continued. Floyd's wife and brother, Bradley, and Blackie Smalley were I arrested. Mrs. Floyd and Smalleyand his wife being charged with ‘ automobile theft. jIt developed today that Saw-1 yer. shooting left handed while grappling with his captors, tired - between Goodfellow's legs. The j r bullet, after striking the countyr clerk in the groin, passed through1 the convict's right hand.Authorities revealed that charges of attempted murder and robbery with firearms may be r filed against the convict here. In 1 that event he would face the possibility of going to the elec-( trie chair, despite the fact he al-1 ready is under two life sentences, .’j Sheriff Crisp said he might ‘ take Sawyer to the McAlester penitentiary for safe keeping late , today or tomorrow.
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Ada Weekly News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jun 08, 1933
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