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ce een yet be CLARXSVILL= LEAF-CHROI-ICLS CLARSVILLE, TakN 7-12-53 ~ “PRETTY BOY” FLOYD REPORTED TO ‘HAV. . BEEN VISITOR HERE A belated story, gathered from odds and ends, this morning reveal- ed the fact that, according to fairly rellable proof, Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, notorious Oklahoma outlaw passed through Clarksville Thire day night. . me, te, [:, Floyd, who, it was said, was pos- jitively Identified by a traveling kalesman from North Carolina who jwas a playmate of his when they were both kids, was with a party of nine men in three high powered ig@utomobiles and the party stopped New Providence at a filling sta- ‘Hon to refuel een. i” The salesman, Whose mame could -mot be learned, was said to have accosted Floyd, calling him by the iname, Charles. They ex . greetings and each asked, accord- ling to the rumors, about the other's \gamily, Floyd told the salesman he was €b route to Georgia, but, the party drove aff towards Kentucky after ‘a few minutes’ delay. The man be- INeved to have been Floyd was de- ‘scribed as heavily armed as were | other occupants of. the three cars. After the group had driven away, the salesman gasually informed by- ‘gtanders that the person whom ‘he preva. He with was “Pretty Boy"! ’ ova. He said he Was not courting jdea h, when asked why he did not expose the notorious bandit, . _—_— of ‘a Te we _ La te a -_— Clarksville Thureda ts ost in New Providence a mn ff 7 wea ere Wednesday. . Flora. to. fairly‘ reliable” proof. pasved 7 Bight and et a Tiling ae