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- The Ponca City News, Oklahoma, Sunday, 2 December 1934
Sooner Pleads Guilty To Arkansas Robbery
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Dec. 1-(UP)-John Evan Bass, 33, Vian, Okla., plead guilty today to charges of burglary and larceny in connection with robbery of the First National Bank of Gravette, September 9, 1932. Judge John S. Combs sentenced him to to years and one years on the respective counts, the sentences to run concurrently.
The minimum sentences were assessed on recommendation of the deputy prosecuting attorney who said bass had no part in other crimes charged to his alleged confederates, Charles Cottner and Alton Purdy, who are serving sentences in other states.ass said he received $1,000 of the #3,500 in securities stolen from the bank?s safe.
Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Oklahoma, Saturday, 24 April 1937
Evan Bass
Evan Bass, recently released from prison in Arkansas after serving a term for bank robbery, drew three years in El Reno for operating an un-licensed still near Marble City.
Bass said he salvaged and repaired a neighbor?s still after is supposedly had been destroyed in a raid by Joe Wilson, deputy U.S marshall from Sallisaw.
1930 Federal Census of Marble City, Sequoyah County, OK (2 Apr 1930)
Evan J. Bass 28 M OK OK MS Head Farmer General Farm
Viola L. 28 F OK FBC Wife
John E. 7 M OK MB
Carl L. 3 M OK MB
Paul R. 3/12 M OK MB
(Married at 19 & 19) (MB ? Mixed Blood)
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