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Eddie Cowden, accused bank robber, and Three Law Officers

Description: Man standing in front (without a tie) is accused bank robber Eddie Cowden. Men standing behind are law enforcement officers, left to right: M. I. Lairmore, C.O. Davis, and Ike Wilkinson. The officers captured Cowden and two other men after a car chase and gun battle. The chase developed after a bank in Coweta, Oklahoma was robbed. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 8, 1930
Creator: Stithem, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292B.0029]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Hixon brothers, James A., 26, and Joseph Luther, 32, are pictured above at the county jail Tuesday afternoon shortly after the pair entered a plea of guilty to charges of robbing the Walters National bank of $33,000 August 8."
Date: November 19, 1946
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1436.0652]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Tommy Carroll, shown here in a police photograph, and identified by federal agants as a bank robber is believed to have been the strange member of the Dillinger Band in the battle of Mercer, Wis."
Date: April 23, 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0255]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tulsa bank robber is searched by police officers 15 minutes after the national Bank of Commerce was robbed Wednesday of 3,000. Robert Neil Selso, 34, Tulsa was captured a few blocks from the scene by officers Elmer Sttle, right and Bruce Baldwin, center, shortly before he was to board a bus for Oklahoma City."
Date: September 5, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292B.0030]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joseph Luther Hixon, 33, left, in the custody of Fred Hill, deputy U. S. marshal, refused to talk about the $33,000 robbery of the Walters National bank when placed in jail here Wednesday."
Date: October 24, 1946
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1042.0494]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "McAlester-Jess Paul, the old bank robber, shook with age and his face flushed with the effort of mustering again the mask of pride that had been in his youth."
Date: December 19, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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