Show FORMER JEWELRY STORE CLERK IS 15 SLIPPERY BANDIT oklahoma crook manages to escape laws ladds clutches many times oklahoma Okla lioma city okla by virtue of 0 successful evasion of the law for many months elmer eliner inman iz Is okla homas li onias latest uncrowned and unofficial bandit king inman has been popularly dubbed tile the successor lu in public interest to tile the dapper and youthful Matt matthew liew nimes who has been condemned to die tor for murder but to the undiscerning eye of 0 the law he Is just an escaped convict act inman Inra ans s elopement with the daugh ter of a penitentiary warden a brief attempt to reform and two subsequent and spectacular escapes from custody have set him apart from tile the run of unimaginative outlaws jewelry store clerk clark ten years ago inman was a clerk in a jewelry store at arkansas city kan for embezzlement from the store lie he was committed to lu the kansas penitentiary at lansing because of ills his excellent behavior he became a trusty and was assigned as a chauffeur to warden 3 K codding the f tv r I 1 1 11 arrested while robbing a clothing store debonair convict captured the henrt of lavoria lavona codding the wardens hangliter dang liter and in the belief that he would beform she eloped with him in 1021 inman soon became involved again in ill difficulties cuttles with the law however and ills his wife divorced him film two years ngo ago lie was arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store at ardmore okla with ray terrill an alleged member of the kimes gang of bank rob robbers berg lie he broke jail and escaped buys truck farm coining to oklahoma city he purchased ft a suburban truck farm in partnership with alva sherwood and for more than a year posed ns as a gentleman farmer net neighbors labors were surprised when inman and sherwood who had bad gone g one under assumed names were arrested while robbing a clothing store inman and sherwood were convicted but on their way to prison last spring they leaped through the window of their train and escaped the outlaw who Is about forty years old usually presents a h spruce appearance ne has expressed a preference for death to further imprisonment it was believed recently that an outlaw killed by wichita police was inman but the dead bandit was identified later as a former associate |