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Did you know that when Pretty Boy Floyd robbed banks he would often destroy banks’ mortgage records, which left many people debt free. Arrested and swore never to go to prison, but it didn’t work out. Plus, wanted for numerous cases. Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was born in Adairsville, Georgia on February 3, 1904. His family moved to Oklahoma soon after that, where they owned a farm and were extremely poor. First arrested at eighteen when he stole $3.50 in coins from a post office. At twenty years old, Floyd married Ruby Hardgraves; they had a son, Charles “Jack” Dempsey Floyd. Later he was arrested for a payroll robbery in St. Louis, Missouri on September 16, 1925 for five years. In 1929 Pretty Boy was wanted in numerous of cases. And on March 9 he was arrested in Kansas City on the investigation. And then again on May 6 for vagrancy and suspicion of highway robbery and was released the …show more content…

1," and there was a $23,000 bounty was offered for his capture, dead or alive. He avoided the authorities for a little over a year after the Kansas City Massacre, and was using the aisles Mr. George Sanders. After three and a half years he paroled, he committed a series of bank robberies for several years. Even though he vowed that he would never see the inside of another jail cell. He teamed up with Vernon Miller and Adam Richetti in Kansas city underworld. Also, where he got the nickname “Pretty Boy”. When he got his nickname “Pretty Boy” he hated it. He got was sentenced 12-15 years. Where he kicked out a window, on the way to prison, and jumped out of the speeding train. When he made it to Toledo he hooked up with Bill “The Killer” Miller. The two went on a crime spree across several states until Miller was killed in a spectacular firefight in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1931. Once he was back in Kansas City, Floyd killed a federal agent during a raid and became a nationally known criminal

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