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Holdenville, Oklahoma, October 24th, 1934.

Four men slugged the Hughes County Jailer Jim Sickles

and escaped with two women companions and two stolen automobiles and forcing two men to accompany them.

The fugitives considered desperate were Bill Johnson, Ambrose Knicks, alleged highway robbers,

Arthur Gooch, Henry Hurst, Maudy Lawson, and Myrtle Kindig.

Bill Johnson of Okmoggi, the leader of the break, struck the jailer with a piece of lead

pipe at breakfast time, and obtaining his keys freed the others.

The jailer, stunned but not seriously injured, and four trustees were locked up with threats of death

if they gave an alarm. The fugitives who smuggled a pistol into the jail with outside aid by

tossing a string made by strips of cloth from the jail window include the two couples which

terrorized the countryside around Arpolar several weeks ago

before being captured near Wattumka. Murdo Kendig and Henry Hurst, both of Fort Smith, Arkansas, were

held on burglary charges. Johnson, Gooch, and Maudy Lawson, 19-year-old McAllister girl, allegedly participated in two highway robberies, filling station robberies, and kidnappings the night of August 19th.

Dosi Beaver, another McAllister girl, allegedly was the fourth member of the party of terrorists who kidnapped three farmers at Arpolar

and freed them minus clothing on the highway for a lark.

Two of the men took a Ford V8 sedan from T.C. Puckett, suburban grocer,

kidnapping Puckett and his son,. The kidnappers, who walked across

town to the Puckett Grocery, held up the T.C. Horn filling station east of here, and later were

reported to have sped through Calvin heading eastward. At Hanna, they were reported to have taken a

shotgun from a farmer. At Hanna, they were reported to have taken a shotgun from a farmer.

At the apartment, only a block away, four of the fugitives terrorized five women,

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