Charlene Braden, her maiden name was Sherwood. Her father owned the local grocery store, and she grew up working hard and learning the business. In school she had always been in love with that sandy haired farm boy named Clay Turner. Clay was two years older than her, and after she graduated from high school Clay asked her to marry him. But in 1927 times were hard in Colorado, Clay left town one night and was gone.

Two years later a good friend named Earl Braden, who worked as a clerk at City Hall, asked Charlene on a date, one year later they were married. As the years past Charlene kept reading about Clay Turner in the newspapers and hearing the stories on the radio. Earl and her did not have any children, and the memories of Clay kept her love alive for the magical Robin Hood, who was famous, rich and friends with John Dillinger.

After Ed Hemmings turned in Clay to the police in 1937, she hated Earl and would not speak to him for 9 months, she felt that he and Ed did this to keep him out of her life. She started smoking and drinking. She had a brief affair with a doctor who lived in a near by town. By the 1960's she was an alcoholic and Earl took care of her and made her excuses to the town folk. Charlene's father died and left her the store, and Earl retired from his city job, to run the store the best way he knew how.

After Clay Turner's return from his 30 year prison term, he saw Charlene only a few times. He became good friends with Earl again, and helps him financially with the grocery store. Charlene died in 1973, from alcohol poisoning. Earl and Clay still reside in Olathe, Colorado to this day.

Ed Hemmings, son of a wealthy rancher. Ed was a graduate of the Denver Business College. He sold the ranch land that was left to him and over the next decade owned all the buildings on Main Street in Olathe, Colorado. His nickname was money-bags, he was loud, pompous, and bought whatever he wanted.

Ed owned the town, and the thought of Clay Turner coming home scared him to death. He and Clay were on the football team together in high school and the coach always picked Clay over Ed to run the winning play of the game. On the track team Clay would run faster than Ed, and score more points at basketball games. Ed was jealous of Clay, one year Ed poured some oil into a water trough on the Braden's farm and two cows died. Clay knew that Ed was the culprit, but could never prove it, and did not even try too. However Clay did corner Ed in an alley one evening and confronted him with physical harm if he ever trespassed again. When Clay left town in 1927, Ed felt he was off the hook for his childish actions and his rival was out of his life forever.

Clay Turner was born in 1907 in Olathe, Colorado, and at the age of 20 he rode out of town on a bootleg beer truck and ended up in Chicago to finish out the Roaring Twenties. When booze became legal again, he was hard pressed for work and robbed a small gas station. He fled to Michigan and from 1932 - 1934 rode with the John Dillinger gang.

Clay was with Dillinger during the Nov. 20th, 1933 American Bank & Trust hold up in Racine, Wisconsin for $28,000, he re-joined the gang after Johnny broke out of the Crown Point Indiana County Jail on March 3, 1934. Clay was waiting in a hotel with other gang members when Dillinger was gunned down in Lincoln Park, Chicago by the FBI. Clay left town that night with four gang members and launched a bank robbery and crime spree for the next three years across the mid-west.

Needing rest and a safe haven, Clay returned to his parent's farm outside Olathe in 1937, rumors spread fast that the famous Clay Turner was in town. Clay's boyhood friend Earl Braden was worried that his wife, Charlene, would leave him for Clay. Charlene had been engaged to Clay when he left town in 1927. Earl told Ed Hemmings he was worried that Clay would leave with Charlene. Ed then told the County Sheriff where Clay could be found. Clay was arrested and found guilty for bank robbery and interstate flight, and was sentenced to Atlanta Prison for 30 years, the year was 1939.

Having completed his 30 years to pay for his crimes, Clay returned home to Olathe, bought his parents farm, (old bank robbers have secret money hidden somewhere, right!) and lived out a quiet life working with the Colorado School Education System and the Colorado Board Of Corrections to help increase awareness about the penalty for living outside the law. In 1971 he was elected to the Olathe City Council.

Sheriff Chester "Charlie" Binns, the kid in school that everyone makes fun of. His father worked on the Hemmings ranch in Olathe, Colorado. Chester did not do well in school but could do math in his head and could spell any word in the dictionary. His high school sweetheart was Martha, Ed Hemming's sister, whom he would later marry in the mid-1950's while home on leave from the Army.

He joined the Army in 1942 and made the Normandy invasion during the war, after Germany was defeated he was a Military Policeman in Berlin, and stayed in the Army for 25 years, retiring in 1967.

He returned to Olathe and became a deputy Sheriff and within a year with the help of Ed Hemmings he ran for town Sheriff and was elected.