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NOTED AMERICAN DEPEEADO. NEW YORK, September 7." Harvey Bailey, America’s most notorious desperado, escaped . froqi .prison in- Dallas, Texas, to-day 'and I took the sheriff with him. ;) r fhe prisoner escaped in the sheriff’s car, and tord across country in true wiid west style, until three hours later he was captured without bloodshed. . . A confederate must have, .smuggled a revolver into the gaol, for Bailey suddenly .appeared in the gaoler’s office brandishing one and swearing that he meant business. Forcing officials to march ahead, Bailey directed the sheriff, Trcsp, into the letter’s motor-car. . Then, taking the driver’s seat he handcuffed Tresp to him and started headlong for open country. Near Ardmore, Oklahoma, a party of police overhauled Bailey while he Was replenishing his supply of petrol. He got away again, but officers surrounded him alter, a 70-mile-an-hour race through Ardmore streets. Bailey is accused of participation in’ the Kansas City Union Station mas-, saoro, and in the kidnapping of Mr Charles Ursciiel, the Oklahoma millionaire oil magnate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1933, Page 6
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