Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Aruther " Pretty Boy" Floyd was born on February 3, 1904 in Adairsville, Georgia. Pretty Boy Floyd was an American Bank Robber. He operated in the Midwest and West South Central States, and his criminal exploits gained heavy press coverage in the 1930s. On Nay 20, 1930 he was arrested in Toledo Ohio for suspicion, he was sentenced on November 24, 1930 to 12- 15 year in Ohio State Penitentiary for the Sylvania Ohio bank robbery, but he escaped. Floyd was a suspect in the deaths of bootlegging brothers Wally and Boll Ash of Kansas City. Floyd became the primary suspect in June 17, 1933, gunfight known as the " Kansas City Massacre" that resulted in the deaths of four law enforcement officers. On July 23, 1934 following the death of John Dillinger " Pretty Boy' Floyd was names Public Enemy No. 1. On October 22, 1934 Floyd was shot in a corn field behind a house on Sprucevale Road between Beaver Creek State Park and East Liverpool, Ohio near Clarkson, while pursed by local law officers and FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis " Pretty Boy' Floyd died under an apple tree at the age of 30.