Clemantine Richetti

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"Blackie" SMALLEY</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Clemantine "Marie" (Richetti) Smalley</B></I> <B>was born on 3 Jun 1901 in Freemont County, Orckville, Colorado.   The oldest daughter to Bart and Elisabetta was to eventually marry  L.C. “Blackie” Smalley a disabled veteran of World War I.    She had one son named </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id21_l.htm#jack_smalley" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Clemantine Richetti"><B>Jack</B></A></FONT><B>.  Both Marie and Blackie living a very tough lifestyle enlisted the help of Marie's parents </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bartolomeo Elisabetta Richetti"><B>Bartolomeo and Elisabetta</B></A></FONT><B> in raising her son Jack.   Blackie and Marie had had lived just outside of Wewoka, Oklahoma in a little town called New Lima.   Blackie and Marie lived a very meager existence eking out a living farming and doing whatever was necessary to get by.   Blackie and Marie developed a relationship and were close friends of the </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/boley.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/boley.htm"><B><U>George Birdwell</U></B></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>family,  and with Choc Floyd's family.   Blackie had assisted on several bank robberies with George and Charles from time to time just to help make ends meet for his family.   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eva Richetti"><B>Eva</B></A></FONT><B>, Marie's youngest sister had temporarily lived with Marie and Blackie after her failed marriage and loss of her son.   When</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Adam C. Richetti"><B>Adam</B></A></FONT><B> had been released from Crown Point, Indiana he too had moved in with Blackie and Marie while he had been on </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/kuwait/55/id106.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ku"><B><U>parole</U></B></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>.</B></FONT><B> It is there that Blackie and Marie had introduced Adam and Eva to Charles Floyd and George Birdwell shortly after his release from Crown Point in October 1930.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Just prior to March of 1932 Blackie and Marie had petitioned the courts to acquire Eva's only son </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fred H. Sustik"><B>Fred</B></A></FONT><B> that had been placed in an orphanage.  During the adoption proceedings the judge that had overseen the hearings disapproved their request based on the fact that he considered the family to be destitute and unfit to raise young Fred.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/kuwait/55/id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ku"><B><U> Wednesday, 9 March 1932</U></B></A></FONT><B>,</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> at 2:30pm Adam, driving a Chevrolet Coupe along with Fred Hammer, a local ex sheriff and supposed leader of this gang, along with Luther (Blackie) Smalley pulled up just across the street of the front door of the First National Bank at Mill Creek, Sulpher, Oklahoma. Fred Hamner and Blackie walked across the street into the bank, as Adam awaited outside with the engine running. Once Fred and Blackie had entered the bank they ordered everyone inside to lay down on the floor. Fred and Blackie had gathered almost $830.00 dollars from the cashier drawers and vault, before the bank teller Vivian Dye could sound the alarm and close the vault door. As the silent alarm went off one of the men fired shots into the vaulted door in anger, which alerted more of the towns people. Both men ran from the bank, Fred carrying the satchel of money with Blackie right behind him, only to be met by a hail of accurate shotgun and pistol fire by vigilant citizens. </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>These vigilantes were local citizens, they were armed to the teeth and ready for action. In the attempted shootout, and escape, Fred dropped dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Blackie fell also being seriously wounded by a shot to the head. Blackie along with Adam were held in the Sulpher Sanatorium where they recovered from gunshot wounds. Later they were transported to McAlester Penitentiary. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On April 26, 1933 friends of Blackie and Adam;  Coleman Rickerson, Clarance Garatley, and Shine Rush robbed the bank at Comanche, Oklahoma. Leaving one man in their parked sedan, two men entered the bank and held seven persons at gunpoint while forcing the cashier to hand over two thousand dollars. After they had released five hostages, a posse man confronted them and was wounded in the hip in the gunfight that ensued. Clarance Garatley, and Shine Rush rushed to  Blackie's  farm where they hid out in a cabin at the back of the farm. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Three days later on April 29, 1933 local law enforcement officials aided by a tip raided Marie and Blackie's farm.  In ensuing  shoot out, Clarence Garatley is captured however Coleman Rickerson was killed in an ensuing shootout  when he refused to surrender.  Blackie, and Marie along with her younger sister Eva were arrested for harboring a criminal at a cabin behind their farmhouse. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Shortly thereafter on  3rd of June, 1933, Adam, his sister Marie, </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id27_charles_ruby.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charles Pretty Boy Floyd"><B>Charles and Ruby Floyd</B></A></FONT><A HREF="id27_charles_ruby.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charles Pretty Boy Floyd"><B> </B></A><B>were  out for an afternoon joy ride.  Their stolen car and joy ride was suddenly halted by a flat tire.  While they were attempting to replace the tire with the spare  3 Seminole county deputy sheriffs drove by  doing a routine check.  Charles Floyd was asked  to identify himself which he did by reaching under a blanket and pulling out a Thompson Submachine gun. He pointed the machine gun  at the deputy and told him to “Go to Hell'.   The deputies took off back to Wewoka for reinforcements.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Adam and Charles ran away on foot, leaving Marie and Ruby with the car. Marie, and Ruby Floyd then poured gasoline on the car and lit it on fire. By burning the car they destroyed any evidence, and finger prints that where there. The local law enforcement officers returning to the scene and immediately arrested Marie and Ruby. Taking the two back to Wewoka, they further arrested Bradley Floyd, Blackie Smalley, and Troy Keesee, the brother in law of State Representative C. L. Hill of Seminole County, who owned the stolen automobile. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Immediately  thereafter  the </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/kuwait/55/id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ku"><B><U>Sheriff of Wewoka</U></B></A></FONT><B> raided Marie and Blackie's house and confiscated a Thompson Submachine gun and a 45 caliber pistol, along with several bottles of whisky. It was there that they arrested Marie's sister Eva once again. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>All were jailed in Wewoka on June 3rd for stealing the car and bond was set at $2,000 each. After being interrogated they were all released 5 June 1933. Later on Charles Floyd had written a letter to Sheriff Aldridge of Wewoka, which was hand delivered by Blackie, and told them that if they did not return Blackie's guns that he would come after them. Nothing ever did transpire with the exception of the sheriff sending back a message with Blackie telling them to come ahead. He had lived his whole life here and wasn't leaving now. They could find him at the jail house. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As time went on Blackie found himself in prison once again for robbery.  On December 13</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>th</B></FONT><B> 1943 Blackie  while confined to the Oklahoma State prison was working in the prison canteen during that afternoon when he was approached by 2 inmates,  Moses Johnson and Stanley Steen.  Both inmates accosted Blackie and robbed the canteen of $30.00 and Blackie of his watch.  Blackie reported the robbery to Sergeant Pat Riley at 3:15pm.  Sgt Riley located both suspects in the boiler room where they had worked.  As he began to question them about the robbery, Moses Johnson hit Sgt Riley over the head with a pipe, then Stanley Steen stabbed Sgt Riley about the face and back with a knife.  Leaving Sgt Riley on the floor to die, both inmates hurried to the prison canteen where other inmates in the area realized what was going on and quickly exited the canteen.  Moses Johnson then confronted Blackie and stabbed him with an ice pick killing him.  Shortly thereafter other prison guards arrested the two inmates in the canteen but not in time to save Blackie Smalley.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Clemantine eventually remarried Jack Freer in early 1940.  Marie and Jack moved from Oklahoma and lived out their lives in Steubenville, Ohio working for Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel. Jack died in 1967. Marie moved to California and lived out her life living with her only child Jack Smalley and his wife Nina in San Diego, Ca.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Marie's son Jack had been raised by Bart and Elisabetta.  He eventually went on to join the Merchant Marines.  Afterwards he moved to California living in San Diego.  He became an accomplished Trap and Skeet shooter eventually became a National Trap Shooting Champion.  Jack cared for his mother until the end of her life.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Marie had carried a heavy burden all her life knowing that she had been responsible for introducing her brother Adam to Charles Floyd, and as a result he was put to death because of that introduction and association.  Marie died in Aug 1984 at 83 in Santa Clara, California.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>