Biography of handsome Floyd

He was born in the town of Bertou, Georgia. Then the family moved to Oklahom. At the age of 18, he made the first robbery - stole $ 3.5 in the postcard department. Charles “Handsome” Floyd Brief biography in the year later he armed himself and attacked the collector, helping out 11.5 thousand dollars - good money at that time. Floyd was sent to bars for five years.

Charles was released three years later, he swore that he would never return to prison again. The wife broke up with him, and he returned to the past. Only from St. Louis moved to Kansas. In March, G. Floyd got into robbery. They could not present evidence of his guilt. In May, he was again caught for suspicion of robbery. Was released. Only four days later, Floyd was arrested in Colorado.

He was sentenced for vagrancy for a new date. This time two months of prison and a fine. Then he acted under the name Frank Mittchel in Ohio. In March, the police officer was killed in a store, which was supposedly robbed by Floyd. For the lack of evidence, he was released. But after the announcement of the sentence and sending Charles fled. He realized that for successful operations he needed a team.

And he soon gathered a gang. In just two years, from software, the bandits cleaned 51 bank. During this period, Charles received his famous nickname with the prefix "handsome". The witness for compiling a photobot called him a pretty boy with cheeks, like apples. No matter how Floyd tried to get rid of such a description and nickname, it was fixed behind him forever.

He sought to get the glory of the romantic robber Robin Hood. However, in addition to robberies, the murders did not shy. In April, the members of his group shot the former Sheriff Kelly. The bandits robbed Oklahoma banks until the three of four of them were killed by the police on November 23. Floyd was wounded and disappeared. His career almost ended. According to rumors, it was on it a body armor, saving him from death.

After the events in the town of pain, where he lost his partners, Floyd found new desperate guys - Ricitti and Eliot. However, having a little work, he was tired or accumulated enough to rest. For almost a year in Buffalo, he and Ricitti left their fishing, settling in the girls. During June and August, they committed a number of robberies, and from September to handsome Floyd, they attribute participation in the massacre on June 17 in Kansas City.

Unidentified faces killed three police officers and an FBI agent. John Dillinger. Without deeds, apparently, the Floyd group bored and returned to the former. By that time, Eliott had already died, and only Floyd and Ricitti participated in the robbery. 8 days after that, two criminals and their companions drove into a pillar by car. The car broke. The girls were sent for the tow truck, and the guys, not without reason, suspecting that they could be identified and arrested, hid in the forest.

The next morning, the local farmer Frumen and his son found them. They were dressed in tuxedos, which attracted his attention, so the man handed them to the sheriff. Four police officers were called to verify. Ricitti and Floyd dispersed. Charles began to fade and hit the policeman in the leg. Ricitti was caught at night, October 20 - three were chasing him and could not miss him.

The handsome continued to wander. He informed her that he was lost when he was hunting protein with the company. He asked the mistress of food and, she, taking pity on the handsome man, fed him dinner. The capture group was already selecting to the farm. They knew who they were caught and careful. Floyd realized that he was discovered, hid behind the barn. But the police found him there too.

They demanded him to go out and surrender, warning about shooting. Charles went out and ran to the forest. Nothing prevented the policeman from shooting him - by accurate shots, officer Smith hit Floyd in his stomach and hand. The bandit fell. But he did not give up: he aimed at the pistol in the approaching.

In the struggle, Floyd tried to get the second pistol, but he was finally disarmed. From the wounds Charles was bad. The primary agent, despite the state of the criminal, tried to interrogate him, for which he was sent to Floyd to the devil. After that he died on October 22, 40 thousand people came to the funeral of handsome. People were eager to look at the legend. He married her at 17, divorced after arrest and first imprisonment.

With her, they had a child Jack Deminki Floyd. One of the legends associated with the name of the gangster says that Floyd took the criminal path allegedly from the rude-seeper, who froze Ruby. Leaving the robberies, he threw money out of the car to the streets, destroyed notes on mortgages, tried to be courteous with visitors to banks who became accidental witnesses. He believed that he releases them from unbearable loans and is doing the right thing.

With contempt, he treated such as Bonnie and Clyde. During the Great Depression, everyone in America was difficult in America. What, however, should not be forgotten, romanticizing his image, - the gang Floyd killed, especially not sparing the ministers of the law. Therefore, the need to eliminate it was only a matter of time. In g.