Sheriff W. E. Nix of Oklahoma was here this week to get a prisoner by the name of Tom Allen, wanted in that state. [Source: Green River Star, Green River WY, June 20, 1913 -- Submitted
by Marie Miller]
FATHER AND SON JOINTLY ACCUSED
Arrested on Charge of Beating to Death Lunatic Daughter
McAlester, Okla., March 29 – (Special) – E. C. Folks, aged 72, jointly with his son, aged 45, is in the county jail, charged with having beaten to death his insane daughter, Lizzie Folks, aged 32. The men were arrested today on an order from a local justice of the peace, and deny that the woman came to her death by violence.
[The Oklahoman, 3/30/1911]
Shots Are Fired By Store Bandit
A gun-firing bandit fled an east-side grocery store Saturday night when the assistant manager ignored his threats and switched on the burgler alarm. The bandit escaped with the manager's billfold. Herman Kennard, manager of the Red-Bud Store, 1640 N. Bryan, said he, his assistant manager, Warren Sherrell, and Mrs. Sherrell, were locking the store about 10 p.m.. The 6-foot gunman came around the north side of the store firing two shots into the ground. "It didn't sound like a real gun," Kennard said, "It sounded like a blank." The bandit took Kennard's wallet and told Sherrill to open the door and make certain the burglar alarm was turned off. "I turned on the alarm and then opened the door," Sherrill said, "and he started running." Sherrill got a shotgun from the store and fired once at the bandit. Kennard described the gunman as about 23, tall and slender, dressed in a light gray sport jacket, gray cap and a flowered handkerchief over the lower half of his face.
[Source: The Oklahoman Feb. 8, 1959 Page 16]
