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In an attempt to help keep themselves fed, the family became involved in the bootlegging business. Money was scarce. Looking for a better life he left his home and traveled north looking for harvest work.

Many nights were spent in hobo camps. Charles was ready to work but there just wasn't any available. Eventually he gave up looking and brought his first gun. It wasn't long after that, at the age of 18, he pulled his first crime.

This was "easy money". He was arrested on suspicion of the crime but his father gave him an alibi. He took the train to St. The money kept them for a few weeks but after spending it on expensive clothes and big meals they were broke again. He was arrested because local police found it suspicious that he had new clothes and a new Ford. When they searched his house they found some of the money still in it's wrapper. He was sentenced to 5 years in the Jefferson City Penitentiary. During his incarceration his wife gave birth to their son, Jackie, and divorced him.

He was released after 3 years and vowed never to be locked up again. Later life and criminal history: On a visit to his parents farm he discovered that his father had been shot to death in a family feud with J. The accused was acquitted of the crime.

Charles took his father's rifle went into the hills and J. Mills was never seen again. He became most notorious after he left the East Liverpool area. Hired guns, murderer's and successful gangsters hung out here. It was here that he learned to use a machine gun and acquired the nickname "Pretty Boy".

It was a name given him by a madam, Beulah Baird Ash, in a brothel and he hated it. However, it stuck and made him into a colorful criminal. Floyd is reputed to have maintained relationships with both Ruby and Beulah throughout the rest of his life even posing as their husbands under assumed names.

During the next 12 years he robbed as many as 30 banks, killing 10 men. During his crime sprees in Oklahoma the bank insurance rates doubled. He filed a notch in his pocket-watch for everyone he killed. His first bank robbery is reported to have been the Farmers and Merchants bank in Sylvania, Ohio. Floyd was arrested at his Akron, Ohio hideout for this crime. He was tried and convicted but escaped by jumping out of the train window near Kenton, Ohio while on his way to the Ohio Penitentiary. The first person he killed was a police officer, Ralph Castner, who stopped him from robbing a Bowling Green, Ohio bank on April 16, A clerk in a store recognized them when they were purchasing dresses for the women.

The clerk alerted the police who arrived as the group were walking down the street. As they ordered the group to stop, Floyd and Miller opened fire. Castner was killed, Chief Carl Galliher dropped to the ground, killing Miller and injuring Beulah, Rose Baird, 23 was captured but Floyd escaped in a car.

Floyd maintained to his death that he was never involved in this crime. During the next 17 months Floyd and Richetti were hunted by every law enforcement officer in the country.

Jack Floyd, although he saw his father infrequently, said in an article for the San Francisco Examiner June 20, , "He was a fun guy to be around. He was like a regular father. He always had some puppies or other presents for me. Listen to it pound Light it up and take a puff, pass it to me now I'm goin down down baby, yo' street in a Range Rover Street sweeper baby, cocked ready to let it go Shimmy shimmy cocoa what? Listen to it pound Light it up and take a puff, pass it to me now [Nelly] Mmmmm, you can find me, in St.

Louis rollin on dubs Smokin on dubs in clubs, blowin up like cocoa puffs Sippin Bud, gettin perved and getting dubbed Daps and hugs, mean mugs and shoulder shrugs And it's all because, 'ccumulated enough stretch Just to navigate it, wood decorated on chrome And it's candy painted, fans fainted - while I'm entertainin Wild ain't it? How me and money end up hangin I hang with Hannibal Lector Hot shit!

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