Word: pleasanton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belonging to one M. J. Wood of Kansas City (Kans.), who was taking his wife, daughter and the daughter's girl friend to decorate his grandfather's grave. The convicts pushed Mr. Wood out, put on the women's coats, drove to a wooded spot near Pleasanton, Kans. They behaved good-naturedly when Louise Wood, 17, declared: "You can shoot me if you want to, but I'll not sit on your lap." That evening the women and the convicts appeared at a farmer's house. The men cut the telephone wires, demanded food, clothing...
From then on the trails of both parties converged and became bloody. A dead nightwatchman surrounded by cartridge shells bore evidence that the second band had passed through Chetopa, Kans. after leaving Pleasanton. When the Wood car was swapped for another next day at Siloam Springs, Ark., a gunfight with peace officers took place. One convict group marched into the Bank of Chelsea (Okla.), ran out with $2,500 in cash under a barrage from officers and townsfolk. One of the convicts, Lewis Bechtel, was captured while eating at a farm house near Dripping Springs, Okla. Another, Frank Sawyer...
Outside of Pleasanton, Kans. last week a Kansas City realtor who had just foreclosed on a 500-acre farm was found murdered by persons unknown...