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FIFO BY BULLETrdeman Rickerson Identified As Robber in Several Band I loldupsWF.WOKA. \ pril 20. 1’Clarence Caratt y. formersemlnole oil field worker, was irrested today five miles west ofhere and officers aid he had•onf'ssed pa rticl paling in the S2,00o Comanche bank robberylast VV dnesday.Caratiey was raptured In acabin behind tin farmhouse or lUackle Smalley, where anothernxniber of the trio whieh robbed the Comanche hank. Coleman Rlckerson, was shot to death «s-t* rdav.Smalley and his wife are beingheld on charge of harborltucriminals.WKWOKA, April 2'* cmThe outlaw career of Coleman Itiokerson. once sentenced to lit*-Imprisonment “to rid lulsa otyou and your kind forever.” I**ended ended by bullet** front #llt; oust able's pi hoiNickerson. 2*2. Id-ntifi.d as oneof three non who robbed tit*1 Depew State National Hank January Ik. of $2.2ao, and as one ot a trio which robbed the Comanche bank Wednesday of about $2.00(. wa sliot fatally late yes* terday by Constable Hill Cross.Cross report'd the shooting oo-. rurred at tiie home of Hlackl Smalley after he had disarmed Itiokerson when the latter at*| tempted to seize a rifle. Smalleyand his wife. Mari', wer* arr* t-ed on a chars* of harboring a criminal.I Hushed to a hospital here, Itiokerson died a few hours later. Another man. Cross said, escaped. Dickerson was tite first man 1 ever s* nt* need to Ilf' In 1 Ulsa county on holdup charges. District Judge Walker. 1* I ling the, 2t year old army deserter andconfessed robb* r. “no murderer. evlt; r went out with in or mall-, clous lnt• nt than you. sentenced him to life Imprisonment in11*2 r..sj Hicket on subs* lt;|U« ntly escap-1 ed.Hick'T on was granted a have 1 of absenc from the penitentiary t December 12. 1 to July 1.* l* HD alleged companions In the lie pew robbery. Jo* Milam and Lonnie |*o. . uncle of the nntor-1 Inus Charles Kloyd. escaped in a *• kuii fight with officers neat Krla-’■ tow a few da's after the robbery but later w.re captured in Kan-* sas and Plumed here They are •* sell* dullt;*d to go to trial at Sa*ptiloa at ti»»* district court term
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Ada Weekly News

Ada, Oklahoma, US

Thu, May 04, 1933

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