Show EST SOUTHWEST NABS NABS- NABS I BANDIT LEADER Although the three large gangs of bank robbers have been by arrests and convictions bank robberies are Increasing in tho southwest due to the opera opera- operations of independent bandits The independents goIng In groups of two or three rob only the emaIl banks and usually get ely comparatively small amounts of money Most of hese robbers se- se select lect banks In territory with which they are arc familiar Records of the state bureau for crImInal identIfIcatIon show that more banks have been robbed In Oklahoma In the last two years than in the fire years preceding But Dut the amount of money stolen has not shown a 0 proportionate In crease the large gangs monopolized the field they chose thIS the large banks in fn whIch the plunder der would be commensurate with the possIble penalty The Independent bandits are areas areas as bol bold l as those who followed skIllful skillful leaders In the opInion of Charles Worley superIntendent or of orthe the Oklahoma bureau for criminal identification Only one robber i wore a mask In the last two years ears In Oklahoma and he let It drop to his neck when he shoved a pistol against a bankers banker's rIbs Th The three large gangs of bank robbers which have been broken up were led by Matthew KImes Lawrence Red ned Callol ay and andRay andRay Ray Terrill and Elmer Inman Fragments of these gangs dart out of hidIng now and then to rob a bank bank- but they keep out of the reach of the law Terrill arid Inman were san sen to prison last wInter but escaped on theIr way ay to the pent pent- Kimes is serving a life lICe sentence for the murder of an In In- Indian dlan dian deputy sheriff Calloway was as arrested with his wife recently on ona ona a charge of robbing an Oklahoma bank of The fhe three large gangs operated In Texas Oklahoma Kansas Mis- Mis Missouri Colorado Nebraska and Wyoming |