<Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Sequence Number </Th> <Th> Date of Entry </Th> <Th> Time Listed </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomas James Holden </Td> <Td> # 1 </Td> <Td> March 14 , 1950 </Td> <Td> One year </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> Thomas James Holden - U.S. prisoner , was arrested June 23 , 1951 in Beaverton , Oregon , following a tip from a citizen who read the INS story in the Portland , Oregon , newspaper The Oregonian and contacted the FBI . Crime : Escaped police after he was spotted fleeing Illinois November 4 , 1949 ; had shot to death his wife and her two brothers while drinking June 5 , 1949 in Chicago . <P> Past record : was convicted of robbing a mail train in the late 1920s ; escaped from Leavenworth in 1930 . Was alleged to be one of the `` outside '' crew in a sensational armed break of other prisoners from Leavenworth in December , 1931 ; after escape , was caught by Special Agents and local police officers on a golf course at Kansas City , Missouri , July 7 , 1932 ; was released from Leavenworth Prison November 28 , 1947 . </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Morley Vernon King </Td> <Td> # 2 </Td> <Td> March 15 , 1950 </Td> <Td> Two years </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> Morley Vernon King - U.S. prisoner , was apprehended October 31 , 1951 in a Philadelphia , Pennsylvania restaurant , while shucking oysters ; was charged with unlawful flight July 18 , 1947 ; was charged July 12 , 1947 with the murder of his wife Helen , found strangled in a steamer trunk July 9 , 1947 under the back porch of a room at a San Luis Obispo , California motel ; he had fled from police July 8 , 1947 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Nesbit </Td> <Td> # 3 </Td> <Td> March 16 , 1950 </Td> <Td> Three days , after missing for four years </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> William Nesbit - U.S. prisoner at South Dakota State Penitentiary , was arrested March 18 , 1950 in St. Paul , Minnesota by local police following the INS story in the St. Paul Dispatch after being recognized by some boys as `` Ray , '' a man who lived in a cave near the river . Was charged with unlawful flight December 26 , 1946 after disappearing from prison as a trusty driver for the warrant. September 4 , 1946 while serving a life sentence , which was commuted to 20 years on February 18 , 1946 . Had been apprehended at Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , on February 26 , 1937 for murder , having blown up an accomplice in a massive black powder explosion , and trying to kill another accomplice , after beating her in the head with a hammer during a fight in Minnehaha County while stealing dynamite to make nitroglycerin on December 31 , 1936 , following the December 22 , 1936 burglary of jewelry company at Sioux City , Iowa . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Henry Randolph Mitchell </Td> <Td> # 4 </Td> <Td> March 17 , 1950 </Td> <Td> Eight years </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> Henry Randolph Mitchell - PROCESS DISMISSED July 18 , 1958 after the Federal District Court at Jacksonville dropped the bank robbery charge because too much time passed ; had robbed a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation bank in Williston , Florida January 21 , 1948 shortly after being released from Florida State Penitentiary . His criminal career dated back to 1924 and he had been previously convicted in the states of Kentucky , Georgia , New York and Florida for crimes including grand larceny , violation of narcotics laws , breaking and entering , and forgery . With the dropping of the bank robbery charge , Mitchell became the first FBI Most Wanted Fugitive to escape both arrest and the Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive list . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Omar August Pinson </Td> <Td> # 5 </Td> <Td> March 18 , 1950 </Td> <Td> Five months </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="4"> Omar August Pinson - U.S. prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary September 5 , 1950 ; was arrested August 28 , 1950 at Pierre , South Dakota by South Dakota Highway Patrol and an FBI National Academy graduate ; had evaded capture after a shootout with police January 30 , 1950 , at Polson , Montana while burglarizing a hardware store under the alias of Sam Cignitti ; became wanted in 1949 in eastern Washington and Idaho for burglary
who was the first person on the fbi 's most wanted list
Thomas James Holden