Otto wood autobiography

American desperado

This article is about the criminal. For the musician, see Waterparks (band).

Otto Wood (1894 – December 31, 1930) was a Depression-era desperado, born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1894.

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He began his life of crime at an early age, stealing a bicycle from a boy in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. He was quickly caught and spent time in the Wilkes County Jail. He was subsequently sentenced to serve on a chain gang, but the foreman sent him home to his mother due to his age.

Wood hopped his first train when he was seven, travelling to stay with relatives in West Virginia.

Otto wood autobiography

There, his kinfolk (the McCoy-feuding Hatfields) taught him how to gamble, make illegal whiskey, and fight.

He suffered from a foot ailment due to a birth defect, and lost his left hand when he was a teenager. According to some reports, he lost his hand in an accident while working for the railroad in West Virginia.

Another story, told by relatives, is that the injury occ