Matt Kimes, Oklahoma Outlaw

During the 1920s Matt Kimes began his outlaw career as a petty thief and quickly moved up to bank robbery. His first one was in Depew, Oklahoma on June 30th, 1926 just a day after he finished serving a jail term for burglary. A couple of months later he and his gang robbed another bank in Beggs, Oklahoma and a few days after that in Covington, where they looted two banks in simultaneously. They almost robbed a third one but were foiled because the outside bank clock was a few minutes off from