Oakey Jackson - from our story 'Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania'

Oakey Jackson was an infamous underworld figure from Cleveland, known across three states as “the flim-flam king”. He was arrested in New Castle in September, 1959, when a police officer observed him attempting to pull the “pigeon drop” confidence trick on an old lady.

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