A bank robber who had made J. Edgar Hoover’s Department of Justice list of top outlaws had rented a quaint rent house in Fort Smith, a little house that still stands today at 710 N 36 Street. The ...
Two cars traveled down a country road towards the Conkle farm, two miles south of a small town named Clarkson on the eastern edge of Ohio. It was 4:10 on the afternoon of October 22, 1934, and history ...
EAST LIVERPOOL — This Sunday marks the 89th anniversary of the demise of Public Enemy No. 1 Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd on the Conkle farm in Sprucevale. The notorious gangster and bank robber ...
Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen. -- Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd" Charles Arthur Floyd was born in Adairsville, Ga., in 1904, to tenant farmers Walter Lee and Mamie ...
SEQUOYAH COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — On Oct. 28, 1934, Oklahoma’s most notorious and glorified folk bandit Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was laid to rest in Sequoyah County. According to the Oklahoma ...