A payoff protection scheme involving Tulsa police and bootleggers was "a strange and disgusting story," U. S. District Attorney B. Hayden Crawford told a 1957 federal court jury.
Wilbur Underhill, ranked by many as Oklahoma s toughest badman during the 1930s gangster era, was known as the mad dog of the underworld and was even feared by his partners.
A dirt-poor, legally incompetent Muscogee man known as Crazy Jack became fabulously wealthy after oil was discovered on his arbitrary allotment of rocky land near Henryetta.