Monday, January 27, 2014

Pretty Boy Floyd


Pretty Boy Floyd
  • (1904 - 1934)
  • Born in Georgia
  • Colorful outlaw and seen as a robin hood figure in his adopted state of Oklahoma, but everywhere else was considered a dangerous criminal
  • Accused of 10 murders and 40 bank robberies
  • Convicted of highway robbery in Missouri 1925 and sentenced 5 years in state prison
  • Convicted of bank robbery in Ohio but escaped Dec. 10th 1930 from train taking him to prison
  • Killed by FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis on a farm near Clarkson, Ohio Oct 22, 1934, fleeing across a field 

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