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Herbert Allen Deafy Farmer (March 9 1891 – January 12 1948) was an American criminal who with his wife Esther operated a safe house for underworld fugitives from the mid-1920s to 1933.In the 1920s his farm in southwest Missouri was safe harbor for bank robbers and other criminals of the Cookson Hills region such as Harvey Bailey Jelly Nash Wilbur Underhill Big Bob Brady and the Holden-Keating Gang.