The potency of a gun, even in the hands of a “kid” is something wonderful, as was evidenced last night in a number of cases of hi-jacking in the city in which the offenders were two boys, giving their names as John Hart and Ernest King. They say they are 14 years of age and surely are not over 15, one of them being exceedingly small even for a 14-year-old.
The potency of a gun, even in the hands of a “kid” is something wonderful, as was evidenced last night in a number of cases of hi-jacking in the city in which the offenders were two boys, giving their names as John Hart and Ernest King. They say they are 14 years of age and surely are not over 15, one of them being exceedingly small even for a 14-year-old.
They are as precocious a pair of young offenders as have ever been confined in the city jail, “hard boiled” being no name for the effrontery with which they greet all who attempt to talk to them.
They were caught at 1:15 o’clock this morning by Assistant Chief of Police Don Stormont near Mish’s store after they had held up S. F. Wayland and T. H. Wayland at the ice plant.
The two men were inside the building when youthful bandits appeared, the smaller one holding a gun on them and commanding “hands up,” after which the two men were marched to the loading platform where the larger of the two boys went through their pockets, getting $2.00 from S. F. Weyland.
Telling the men to “beat it” back into the building they disappeared in the darkness.
They went to the freight house of the K. O. & G., where a one-armed operator is employed at night. They held him up and relieved him of seventy-five cents. Later one of the “kids” said “Oh, give him back that six bits, he’s a ‘Crip.’” Fenton Watson while on his way home was held up by two boy bandits supposed to be the same pair and relieved of his watch.
A man who clerks in a store here and whose name was not learned, was in Okmulgee last night and starting home was held up and robbed of a sum of money by two youthful bandits.
The Okmulgee Times this morning tells of a male reporting that he had been held up by two small boys, who took all his money. The police there were unable to find any trace of the bandits.
The boys are said to have ridden to Henryetta on the same train with the clerk they robbed there. One of the boys said this morning that they held up a man in Okmulgee but he had no money so they put a hole through his hat.
The two boys appear to have made a round of the city last night from about 9 o’clock until the time they were arrested and the police would not be surprised to hear of other hold-ups.
The boys will not tell where they reside and many who called at the city jail today were unable to identify them but two or three persons said the face of one of them was familiar and they believed they had seen him about Dewar.
