MYSTERIES

A MACFADDEN PUBLICATION • VOL.23 • NO·2

CONTENTS for NOVEMBER, 1934

EDUCATE AGAINST CRIME ... . ......... . .. . ... JOHN E. FOY, Commissioner of Police, Savannah, Gec»"gio 5

"THEY DONE HER WRONG"-<RUSHING THE MAE WEST EXTORTION PLOT As told to Mad Mine Kaley b

DETECTIVE-LIEUTENANT S. S. STONE, los Angel" P~iee Deportment

THE MIRACLE OF THE BLACK.HOODED MAN-A MISSISSIPPI MURDER MYSTERY . .•. Cha~e. f. Fu,ey 10 WRITTEN IN BRAiLLE- A WYOMING MYSTERY .......... ..................... A. told to Morr;. Heple, I.

GEORGE J . CARROLL, Sheriff, Loramie County, Wyoming

THE ENIGMA OF MARY VOLKERS-SOLVING IOWA'S CLUELESS CRIME ... .. ... A. told to Ray M .... olI 22 JOHN NIEBURG. Former Deputy-Sheriff, Marion County, Iowa

MONEY MURDER- THE SCARLET SECRET OF THE SIlKEN SLIP ...................... .. .... N;.,.I T ,001 2.

• Foreign Staff Correspondent for TRUE DElEcnVE MhlERIES

THE MYSTERIOUS BOX ON THE DALMATIA .. ..................................... He,be" Hall TayIM 32

CRIME DOES NOT PAY (Pictorial)... .. . . ... . . .......... . ... . .. ...... .. .. . ... . ....... . .. .. ......... . 35 .

ROBBERY ON THE ISLAND-STALKING THE NANAIMO BANK BANDITS .. A. told to mnk Waa Ho .. Io.d · 3. MATI STARWICH, Former Sheriff, King County, Washington

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THE INSIDE STORY OF THE KILLING OF "BONNIE" PARKER .ANDCLYDE BARROW .. A. told to C. f. Woe" -40 SHERiFf HENOERSON JORDAN. Bienville Porish. louisiana

• SNARING DETROIT'S KIDNAPPING KILLERS .. .. .. .......................... A. told to V;'9~ E. LaMarre 46

FRED W. FRAHM, Chief of Detecli"es, Detroit, Michigan

HOW FAST CAN YOU DRAW? ............... . ......... . ... . .. . ... .. ... ... . .... Charles Askins. Jr. 50 . U. S. Champion Pistol Shot. 1932 .

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ATROCIOUS MASSACHUSmS KILLINGS As toJd to Fred H. ThomplOn. Special Investigator for TRUE DEIECIiVE M ',SIERIES 52

HON. JOSEPH B. ELY, Govet'nor of Mouodtuu lis

THE PHANTOM KILLER OF THE BRAZOS .................... ............ .. ......... 810 Made farm... 56 . .

HOW CHINA DEALS WITH KIDNAPPERS ..... . ................. Rm U ..... J ... ,. P. Cleland, U.S. Army bO THE CLUE OF THE MOONSTONE ............ .. .... .. .... .. ................ A. told to R. A. fahl"edt .2

SAM JERNIGAN. Former Sheriff of Orange County, California

THE LINE~UP . . ... . .. .. . .. .. . . .. . .. .. .. . .. .. . ... . .. .. ..... . .. .. . .. .. ... . .... ........................ 70 , LINE-UP CAPTURES ..............• . . • ...• . . •. .. •..•. .. .. . .. ...... ... .. •....... . .... . . .. .. . :.. . ... . . . 72

BRA vas AND BULLETS . . . ... . . .. .. . ... . . .... . . .. ...... . ...... .. .... .. .. . . . .... . . . .. . . . ....... .. .. . 73

T. D. M. CLUES CONTEST............................................ .. ... . .. .. .. . ..... . .. . ....... .. 119

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The Inside Story of

EARLY in 1932, when I beea.me Sheriff of Bienville

P&ri&hl.. Clyde Barrow was • convict in the TeD!! State renitentiary . 2nd, of \.hat youthful ear thief who spread

through. dOseD Btate8, on a The notoriety of the

tum. Hardl, rDOl'e t.h&n a year Barrow and his at [>eiateH had been Wi~hin that short time the crim80n Puker. pretty I red-baired wai\le88,

Aa a pe'CE' officer, ] watched .&rocitiee of the pn&. Twelve Nine of the victims were officers who baWee with t.he desperado peeJ. .

I rejoiced at the vic:tora won by the law in other statel. Marvin ("Buck") B&rrow, Clyde', brother, wounded by Mieeouri officere, died alter his _pture by &II Iowa p1l F? 5. Bl&oche 8now. wife of Marvin, now it in &he MitIeouri S'de Penitentiary. A member of the gaOl who pU'ticipat.ed in MlveraJ of the murden now ill under a death !lenIence m Teus. Others are in various prilJOtl8.

A cold-blooded, heartJeee criminal oomb:nation emerged

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from many oonflicte with brave offioel"8 to attrad nation-wide atteution . The vicioU8De118 of Clyde Barrow and his able lieutenant, "Bonnie" Parker, 8~trFMI even that of John Dillin~r. who Wall rated lUI Pu lie Enemy Number One.

(AN .. ) A lUI' view 01 the c.r in which the outlaw pm came to the end 01 their erur- trail

J.jke OOUOUPD other p: 7 .E oflioere in the South and Southweet., J had attempted to vis"_lise lOme plan toO end Ute wikl career of thil pair. Never had 1 aetually believed, however, that. such an opportunity would occur in my quie~ pariah.

Bienville P&neb ill in the northweel part of Lou_ian. . Arcadia, the pe.riIh Bite, which ill in the nort.heut. paJ1 of· the parish, ill about. eighty milee eaRt. of the TrXftIl l.ouilliana line. TIle ~ter p&r\ of the ,)l.rish lies toO the

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By Sheriff

HENDERSON ORDAN

Bienville Parish, Louisiana As told t o

c. F. WAE R S

(Ril1ht) "Bonnie" and Clyde, .bown in a 1_ bdli&erent PCI! lhortly bcfOt'C: they rode into the death trap

lJOuthwest. of Arcadia. Geographically, this would hAve pla.oed my parish well within reach of the 8wooping dashes of the killers. But only one crime had OOcn charged to Barrow ",nd his gang in Louisiana. .

That came on the night of April 27th , 1933, when H. D. Darby, a Rll8ton undertaker, and MisB Sophie Stone, home demonstration agent, were kidnapped by Barrow and later releagoo in Central ArkAll8M. RUllton is about twenty-fpiC mile8 cad of Arcadia.

The afternoon of Much 24th, 1934, one of my deputu in­fonned me that t wo men wished to 8pttk to me. The vil!it.ors entered my private office. The door was eloeed. The Dlen were Agent L. A. Kendell of the Division of In vestigation,

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(Abot-.) Part of th~ c:unou. crowd tut pthcnd around the lind ~kinc ntabli'bmmt .,. Au ad;", when the bodin of the d ,u.te ~ wae II in, iemo.ed. &an

the car ill wbio;h they died

Department of Juetiot, and Deputy~ Steve Nonid of Be 'zr Pariah. Tbey wae on the trail of CI.Yde R. lOW aDd "Bonnie" Parker.

"Do y.ou recall the FMtham, TeEM, Prieon Farm delivery Jut J&DlW'Y.r" .Agent Kendell asked me. "That was the raid in wbtcb a guard waa killed. Five convict. were freed."

I remembezed 'Vividly the darin, exploit of Barrow and "'Bonnie" Parker. Raywood 1Iamitt.on, who WM ODe of Bar­row'. e&rlier crjmin.! eomp'DMm., Henry MetbviD, Joe Palmer. W. H. By' . . and J. B. Fnmeb were the con.,ide delivered in \be .trai'. Major 00,..,0, the pad, wu II&ruck down by a hail of buJJeU fired lrom. the "'POM of the hidden kj1'pra.

.. ~ ha"" 7 ',N" '-.:d piJ'OIitivd,y t),et Henry Methvin bas t? AI &ra\l'tliDa: with p. lOW and "Bonnie" Parter ..

A@leDt KcruJ,U I&id. "Workin« on the aupposition tb;t Methvin miChC.'U mpt to ,ilii rttlntiwe, we have t .. n ~ kl Iootstc hie (etber, lvm Methvin.

"'van Meth.in Ihed until iNently i.a 8? je, Pari8h, jU8t weet. of your parish. He moved 80me time b&elr.. Our infoftllA.­Lion as thet be moved t.o a piece a.bout filtpo min ool'ih of Couabatt.a, Red River Parish."

"That. would ~t him just. ineide my parish," I said, down in the 8Outh'fVfl8t Comer." A~nt Kendell nodded. The viait of the two officen was terminated in fifteen

minutes. Before they left I had apeed w CArry on a quiet in vestiption .

J spent virtua.lIy every dayli&bt hour of the following ten days traveling through dle lIOutJnvestern part of Hienville Pr.rifIh. I ,topped my car to talk w the farmers in the area. At no time dJd" I ever mah any reference to the PWP08e of my tripe to Ule varioWl communities. I talked to merchants and police in the villa8ee of the district.

After the finlt week the t'8k began to appear hopeie88. I had spent hours listening to fannel"l diecusaing cotton prices, politics and CAIIual gcBsip. J had asked carefully worded quee­tioM about neighbol"l. A new neighbor ill an event of impor­tance in a rural community.

Finally, I heard the name of Ivan Methvinl He had rented a place ID the vepr tip of the pariah , ebJe w where Bienville Pwh, Natchitoehe8, and Red River parishes meet at a

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common point. Were Clyde Barrow, "Bonnie" Pr.rker and Henry Methvin using that piney woods eection, with itA innumerable biding pi ....... , as a rendeswus1 I realised then Lhat I had jUllt started a difficult and perhaps dan­,;BOUS undert&king.

If the kiJlen had been·frequenting the vicinity, I knew that one miMtep on my part would IICnd them lICurrying away. A carefully thought out plan would have to be devilled. I could not then fOl'efle e the next. development.

I regret that I must wiUthokl the name of the perean who 8Uppl)ed information of the utmost importance. In order w protect this mAll I will not disclose any of the conditions under wb)ch we communicated . All th&t can be said is that my informant was on the inside.

ThI'oliP him I iet.med that Barrow, Henry Methvin and "Bonnie" l>Vker had been makin,

(Abu e .) TI:e 'POt WI e the ........ Iou. J'¥ .bid for the .....: .e- .t 2 fIl the pm.i .. i". m eolwn

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periodic viaits to the vicinity of the Ivan Methvin f&ml . 'The visits had been made at intervals of about two weeki.

Traveling at night, usually between 10 and II o'cloclc, ibe out­laWl? would dash inw the area in a fast motor CAr. An hour or 110 laur their ear would be Been Ylpeedin« away over narrow 1m roads. •

That Wa?I early in ApriL I called Agent KendeU who then WM at Monroe, filty-three miIefr eaR of·ANsdia. Without re\'e&ling my information, I urged the Jo'ederal operative to come w my office immediately. Two hoW'l later we were dia­eU8fling plaWJ for trapping the killel'1!l. The Agent was thor­oughly convinced of the genuinene8ll of my inside source of infonnation .

April 13th WM the date for the next. visit. Long distance calls were placed for Chief of Police D. D. Baser of Shreveport, and Sherifi' Tom Hughes of Caddo Parish . Theile officei'll were

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Mked to briDg heavily anned men to Arcadia. Agent Kendell notified his office of the raid plan8. Federal officers were to meet at Arcadia &nd at R.jnQ'O~l & town in the Alabama Bend l!8Ction, cIoee to \be b6ndit reodea\'Ous. All of the officers were requested to be at the meeting places at 6 o'doclc that evening.

All a fi'!!~e.recaut.ion, Agent. Kendell and I de-eie:hd to e another check before !letting the big posae into action . It. w&I!I well that. we did.

ate that. afternoon we left. Arcadia in my car to ",teoo"'nnoiter the vicinity of the projected raid. Tbe other offil'll'll'8 wae to remain at their poI5ta until us. We into Natchi-

""""" bitter Banow to postpone would not. be there thet be &orne uncertAinty aa

trip. Bow that was det.ermined mUBt not be 1'eveabi. Speeding beck to Are.adia~ we ,notified tbe offieera gathered.

there or the change in the oanoit'a pl&n&. Skiwly, the men pthered their weapona and ammunition, preparing to leave. I addwnt.i the offioel"8.

''] want to ask you men to eay nothing about this affair tonight. Thia is the tim time in two ye&l"8 that anything approachinlJ: a spot nAN! &8 a permanent hideout by Barrow hu been (ound. I( our pla.n8 should leak out the gang would be ec&red out of the country. Plene keep it quiet."

PerhaPEI my d E i1'e for eeereey W88 unnecessary, but I will never think 80.

In that manner I had entered the far-flung eearch for the lrilier pack. In the meantime, two of the m08t oubltanding offieel"8 in the Southwest had :been relentletJ6ly following the trail of Clyde Barrow and "Bonnie" Parker. 'Their 888ign-

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(Abo¥.) Souoe 01 Ttap. At the ript: b the nnt.nk. ment that hid theofficu .. Methvin'. truck ... parked .lxae: cas- is *: au. The Dora lOW car _ tint ticbted

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ment was to bring the desperadoa in, dead or alive. Captain Frank Hamer, who had made criminal apprehen­

sion bjetory as • nwnber of tbe famous TeI'P Ringers, had taken up the hal&l'dOW! tuk IIOOn after the F..aI!tham PI ieon Farm dcli\wy. He W&II • fit mID {or the IMigmnent. Six feet, three inchee tall, powerfully built, he poewsMi the analytieaJ mind noowsry to eope with BuTow-'1I eluai~neM.

Infuriated by the raid upon the prilJOn fann, Lee SimmoD8, Gc:oual }fan-S r of the Teps l'riaon 8yBtem, ddered tlt., the etate would be awnged. lor the indiJtnjty: He decided early that there WM only one piooodure. ThU WM &0 put 000 or hro m,;hly 4 7 p'ble offic . 78 on the tn.iI &nd keep U.#111 there unt.il Lbey 8tH>"1OOded.

<Apt'in Hamer was his immedi·te ehoioe. 'I1le fOllib Texu p.nger, then a member' of the Teus &'Ie H"JgbWlloy Patrol, WU DOtld for his po 'dece, .ability and bravery. Called the "f&Bto!t m'D on the draw in TeD'," Captain Hamer had kil'et.i fIiny-6", out.i&n who had hm (oolish eoough c.o attempt to kill him.

ALTHOUGH &torie& about the officer were legion, General Man.ger SimmQM knew that CapLain Hamer W&8 cJoe.

mouthed, declinina: e~n to dieeuB& his past. exploitlJ. Ban-ow would never know that the Nemeei& of outlaws might IJOme day look 'II.t him down the banel o( a dend1y rewlver.

Before approaching Captain Hamer on the subject, Sim­moM went to Gowrnor M. A. Ferguson . The pr1aon emcutive outlined his plan. At first it aeemed &8 though techniealitietl o( the law might deleat the plan. Finally, the Governor'l CODBent wae won . 11 Captain Hamer WIUlted the t.&sk he would. be given a blanket a88ignment, with pennisl:!ion to leave the state at will.

February lOtht.~~wenty-five d&)'II after the priBon camp de­livery, Captain .a.amer bec&me Special investigator of the TeI&!!? State PrilJOn S)'IItem. He had obtained an indefinilR leave (rom the Highway Patrol.

At that time the Captain'a knowledge of Clyde Barrow and "Bonnie" Parker WM only ~neral. The crimes of the pair: and the activitice of peace offiool"8 agail'lllt them had been ecattered over a wide territory. If there was a modUf opc-andi it would seem to be to kill and flee. Where to find Barrow! A spot map of the criminal operatioM of the outlaws would

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seem to indicate: Anywhere in a hall million square miles. CAptain HAroor knew tha.t. his only chance of success lay

in a careful study of the Barrow metbod of operatioll8. The InIUl 'S early and more recent crimes would have to be ana­lyzed. The most minute details wouJd have to be taken into oonsideration. The swooping etOfI8-OOWltry dasbe8 of the gang might lead to a forecast.

In other words, what Captain Harner bad llet. out to do was to prepare, in effeet, a "",,-eather map" of the Barrow tactics. By accumulating a wst knowledge of the criminal's activ­ities, the officer believed that he might be able to predict" spot at which he might enoounter the outlaW!!. To start with, he had as basic points nine murders, po88ibly a soore of sizable hold-ups, and literally countless petty robberies cl all sorts.

CAPTAIN HAMER'S first act was to go to the office of Sheriff R. A. Schmid of Dalle.s County, Texas. The

Sheriff and his deputies probably were beUer aequaint.ed with the Barrow depredations than any other officetfl in the country.

There, the Special Investigator W86 introduced to Deputy­Sheriff Dob Alcorn, who, /lOme montha pre-viously. had been given a special l181!.ign-ment. on the Barrow CAne. Sheriff Schmid and Deputy Aloorn had engaged in a wild battle with Barrow and "Bonnie" Parker early in November, 1933.

For hourn the three officers went over the reoords on Darrow and his various oompanions. The bare facts were there. Sheriff Schmid and Deputy Aloorn went into fu rther detail. The hour was late. when this important oonference wan ended. When it WAR over the HalTl6r-A loom com-

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bination was fOlilled . 11\e two officers were to work togeUleJ" indefinitely.

It would be annoying to readem to go over the ground oovered by Captain Hamer and Deputy AJonm in the {ollow­ing weeks. It would result largely in repetition of facts given by Chief of Detectives .Ed Portiey of Joplin , MisfIouri, in his story on the Barrow gang published in the past five i88ue8 of this magazine. Beeidee, it wan not. 80 much the erimee committed by the outlaws that interested the officers' they were, rather, trying to beoome acquainted with the habiu>

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The Inside StOT,· of tM Killing of "B0n11ie" Parker and Clyde Barrow 4.1

(Abcw_) The c& "'a that act the ttap fIX" the: cklf: ~ r..ru. end Doabbl:d them. Standin&. left to ria:bt: Deputy Ted HiDtOD ol [)en.. T"Y*" • • • Chief Deputy PlUltia M . o.kley; Patrolman B . )0'1-Gtiult, or the T_ Hiah ..... y Pattolr Sittin&:. left to ri&:ht: Deputy Bob Alcoan. Dalla' Tau; Sherif!" Jordan. ....ho ,.ve u. the .tory of the c.p­ture; and CapUlin Frank Hamer. well-known Ten.

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and the pyschology of the perpetratoM:l.

More than fifteen thou­sand miles were to be covered by the 8e&TChers. Their travels were to carry them through nine 8tai.el!: TelW. New Mexico, Oklahoma . Arkans'8, Mi8f!Ouri, K.a.nsa!<, Iowa, and into MississiPPI and umisianll. . before the desperate pAir were comered r

'They learned that Barrow appArently wa.s a strong be­liever io hunches. The bandit leader would stop his car in one of his mad dashes. back-track for miles and again 8udden ly chang!! his direction. His movements seemingly were with­out rhyme or reaWlO_ Much about the habits of Barrow and his woman companion were learned from W. Dr Jones, a youthful witne88 to several of tbe murders and other crimes, who was arrest.ed by Sheriff Schmid late in 1933.

One of the perioiis that bad been a blank to earljer in­vestigators was cleared up by the officers. That was the time that Barrow and the young waitre88 disappeared following the kidnappin~ of two officeI'!! near WellinfO,olJ , Texas. last

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(Lelt) Chief Deputy Prwti .. M. 0aIdey. of P; h riDe Par­ith. pc Ed with stolaa Iic:alK plates found in tbc: BIuTow CaI". The out1aw cbaoced ?bite. olten to .al __ iden·

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ye&r. "Bonnie" at time wa.s suffering

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severe burtl8 reoeived in a motor~ wreck.

Alter binding the kidnap­ped offioers to a tree in Western Oklahoma, tbe gan,; dashed acroS8 that state and took possession of a home in Vinita, Oklahoma. Two members of the party wenl to Miami, a near-by town , and aeeured the eer vieefl of a nurse. The DUJ'8e was in-8tructed to go to Alton. There she W88 picked up and t.a.lce.o by motor~ to the Vinita house.

For several daya the nUI""8e was kept priltOner by Clyde

Barrow r The young woman was forced to treat " Bonnie" l'arker's bUmll. Still badly frightened by her experiences, the nurse told her story for the first time to Captain Hamer and Deputy Alcorn . r

A rapid 8uccc88ion of new atrocities, starting late in March and continuing into April , cauBed the officers to speed madly over hundreds of mile8 of bighwa)1l . There were two bank robberies in which Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton were identified . Then April 1st, Easter Sunday, reelinR against Barrow and his clgar-6lllOking woman companion wa.s brought to a white heat by the murder of two State Highway Patrolmen r The officers were brutaJly killed near Crapevine. betwefln the cities of Dallas (Continutti on page 74)

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The Inside Story of the Killing of "Bonnie" Parker and Clyde Barrow

and Fort. Worth. L . G . Phares. head of the P atrol immedia.tely offered all of the re80Urees of hit organuation to Captain Barner and Deputy Alcorn. Captain Hamer cbOR one man, Patrolman M. B. Gault, who had beton II. member of the Rangers. The pursuel'1l were liven further powel'1l and reeoun:ee by a IJeCret action of the Dallas Couoty Grt.nd Jury.

Five daY" later, thc outlaW!! killed Con­!Iable Cal Campbell at Commerce. Okla­homa. In their escape !.hey kidnapped Chief of Police Percy Boyd, releaain, the offiter bou~ later in K an(18.8. It was then that Attorney-General Homer S. Cum­mings ordered the Departmcnt of Justice to make every effort toward applebenaion of Barrow and hie companiolUl.

Then followed daYI of running down tip after tip on the whereaboute of the killers. Traveling IIOmetimes sepvateiy, but marc often together , the three office~ i!ped over the SoutbwCflt. At time! they knew tbey were elO8C On the trail. On sevel'll l oceaaiolUl they believed it would be just a ma.tt.cr of hou~ before the gang would be cornered.

RAYMOND HAMILTON W!\.S captured May 25th. H e Wil.l fleeing from

Le"u.,·iIle where he had robbed tbe l''irst National Bank. H amilton told the officers that bie MSOCiation with Barrow had been terminated IIOme weeu previouslf. The gang bad quarreled over tbe divMion of loot from a bank at Lancuter. Teul. The ~plit had occurred at Terre Haute, Indiana.

When H amilton eeeaped, he 1I'1l.II 8(!n'­

ing ICntenteS t-otaling two hundred and sixty-three years. One of the aentencO!l wu for a murder in ll'hich he had ~r­ticipated 1II'itb Clrde Barrow. The killer 1l'!\.S rushed to tnal on one of the bank robtwry cuel. The state dcmanded the death eenteDce. A jury pve him aoother ninety-nine year eentencc, brint;in, the total to three hundred and sixty-t1ll'0 years.

Thil Wall the IIeCOnd time that Hamil­ton had elCa~d the extreme penalty wed by t he state . . Altbou~h disa.ppointed by the , ·erdict. state offiClale announced that they were not throUib with the young Ilayer. He 1II'0uid be tried for the murder of Major Crowaon at the!ri80n farm.

Numeroua lettera maile by the outlaws gave the officers additional information on the movements of their quarry. In one "Bonnie" Parker denied that abe m~ked ci,a~. The linal letter, mailed to Hamilton. "'1\.1 received May 15th. Bar­row ealled his former partner a. "killer and a yellow punk." B e accuaed Ramil­ton of attemptiol to take more than hill !hare of the bank loot..

A linger-print on ~e letter 111'11.8 identi­fied as that of C lyde Barrow by Douglu W al'lh, identification e~rt of the Dallas P olice D epartment. The print was iden­tified by at lean twenty count. .

Gradualil. Captain Barner, Deputy ~I­com and Patrolman Gault were dOllIng in on the remaining members of the ,ani· At lut ther had determined that Barro1ll' "IVM I hutthng back and forth between poinu near Fort Smith, Arbnaal. and ShrevCP.Ort, Louiliana. In fact. the night of Apnl 13th. a trap was laid for Barrow at Fort Smith. That Wall the night that BlUTOw failed to appear at hi! hideout in Bienville Parilh. It Wl.$ believed that the gang barely had escaped capture in the Arkansu raid.

• Underworld contacts in severa l citiea were utili.ed. That the offieefll sol\'ed fourteen bank roboo-ics while in pursui t

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of Barrow indicates the t horoughne81 with which they worked.

Shortly after the date that my ~d had flliled to materialize. Captain Hamer and Deputy Akorn da.!hed into Shreve­port, a city about lixty milea west of Arcadia. In a conference there with Sheriff Hughes the Te:taI officers were adviaed to call on me. Sheriff Hughes did not divulge the nature of my in­formation.

A few hours later I had made tbe ac­quaintance of the TeulUI. Seated in my office in Arcadia, they liltened cloeely ae I related 'he detaile of my inl'cstigalion. They wed numerous questions about the lay of the l&tId. Finally, Captain Hamer Mid:

"Tbat'l the belt information we have had on them. It looka like you mill:ht hal'e a fine chance of catching them. We would like to work with you, if you don't mind."

It should go without saying that I Wa.! more than glad to accept the offer of Captain Barner. We talked for 80me time. In the exchange of information, I learned much about t he killera. profit,.. ing by t he arduoua work of the narrow trailers.

A..niming that rumors of the preaence of the T exaa officers mi&ht reach tbe ear of BlUTOw, it was a,reed that Captain B arner should return to bis bome in Austin and that Deputy Alcorn would retum to Dallas. They would awai t my call before returning to Louisiana.

I immedia.tely contacted my UDder­cover man. We made plana for a cau­tioua watch Onl' the vicinitr. of the Methvin farm. Too late, I earned of another visit to the place bl Barro .... Henry Me\hvin and "Bonnie" Parker. h OC1:UtTed the night of Ma.y 8th.

The report I received on that visit 11'&1

80 detailed that it revealed II. litUe of Barrow's converulion. Be bad ,one to bed at I o'clock in the morning, Ileepinl two hours.

"THIS il the fifllt time I bave aiept in a real bed for eight monthl," Barrow

said. The report reached me several bou~

after the three memben of the gaD, had lped away in their motor ear.

Believing that there might be IIOme chance of ea.pturing Barrow alive 80me night when be ... u taking one of thoee naps. I made arn.ngemenUi for lpeedier communication with my informant In many respecta I dreaded the t hought of such a night raid. It would endanger the lives of several women and children.

Bowever, it appeared u if the risk m ight beeome neeClllary. In order that Captain Hamer and Deputy A.lcorn might become acqusinted With tbe coun­~ 1 asked them to come to Arcadia. We drove over mOilt of the roads in the lIOuthwestem part of the parish. I de­IICribed tbe surrounding country. Before that trip ht.d been completed the officenl were thoroughly familiar with every ~ mle avenue of CIIC!l:r.:'

"I don't like tbe i ea of a raid." I told the Texans. "I am sure that I can think out some way of avoiding it. Give me a. litUe more time and we may be able to take tbem without killing or wounding innocent pel'llOns."

T he officers offered no objection . They returned to their homea.

The morning of M ay 9th. I ea.lled Cap­tain B arner. Be arrived at my office at 6 o'clock that evening. Be wu aceom-

panie<! by Deputy Alcorn, Patrolman Gault and Deputy Ted Hinton of DaUu County.

"We are about ready to go," I /!aid. "Sometime between DOW and the finJt of the month BUTOW and 'Bonnie' Parker will be at the hideout. Just. DOW the daLe i8 uncertain. Will you be ready to come when I call?"

T here WILl DO doubt about the response. Captain Hamer agreed to stay at a dC8i!~ nate<! hotel in ShreveJ?Ort. He would be ready to Ie&\'e on a minute's notice. The other officers would be likewise prepared for action.

About a week Later, Ivan Methvin moved! What would that do to our plan.? A tediOU8 wait was ended by word from my informer. Be had been able to maintain hia contact. Darrow had paid a visit to Methvin's DCW

location! Methvin had moved from the tip of

Bienville Parillh to an abandoned house eaej of Sailes. This hOWIe, the property of S. O. Cole, of Bailes, was located about eighteen milea lIOutbwe!ll of Arcadia. and IIOmewbat near thl! center of my pariah.

SITUATED deep in a forest of pine trees the houae 11'81 a mile and a quar­

ter off state Hi£hway No. 416. The road leadin, to tbe Iiouse was winding, barely wide enough to accommodate a Ilowly movinJ car. Tbe road wa.s lined with tall trees. Several hundred yards from the hi~­way. the road pa"!d through a eleanng about four hUDdred yarda long. From there on to the bou!Je. Lbe lane wound ite way through the f0re.l\ aDd aClem a draw.

The houae .u occupied by Methvin without the permiasiol1.. of the owner.

My next informat.ion concernin« BaT-1'011' wu ol a ltartling nature.

Late Monday niAAL, May 21st, lVOrd eame to me that &rrow and "Bonnie" Parker were planning a raid on the First National Ba.nk at Arcadia.

Barro ... '1 eet,..up for 8lIeh • robbery Wall almost perfeet.. He could have raided the hank and twenty-five minutes later, have literally dropped from sight in his new hiding place. He would not ha\'e had to use a main highwa.r in bil escape.

Early the next morning I warned W. M . Deaa. president of the bank. of the plot. t lent the banker a high-power rifle and placed armed men in strategic positions In the vicinity of the iDltitu­tion. A COlUltant guard wu to be main­tained during the business bounl of the bank.

It wu at 22nd, that I my undercover man. whispered mCflllagtl meant an immediate

night, May report from

i~T.?~:or that C 1\ of

new plan. I I I could move it meont thai. CII/de Barrow Porker would drive into 0,. ineacopabl.!! trop!

Clyde Barrow. Benry Methvin and "Bonnie" P arker had visited the old Cole place near Sailea Monday ni~ht. The following momin,: Clyde, uBonnie" and the ClJCaped convict drove to Shreveport. Their ear was parked in a eeduded spot. Metbvin Btaried. off on foot to obtain food for himeeif and hia companions.

Somethin, bad I.larmed Barrow. No one ever wil l know what caused him to drive away before Methvin returned. I learned that an hour or 80 later he re­turned to the place, but bad been uua.ble to find Methvin.

Alarmed over the separation from

B enry, Barrow and "Bonnie" returned to the Cole place. T hey arrh'ed there be· tween 6 and 6 o'clock. They soon learned that Melhl·in had not re turned to hia father ', home. Barrow gavc an order to Ivan Me!.hl·jD.

" You go to the old place and !leC if Henry iii there," the outlaw oommanded. " We will go to Bossier Pa rish. He lIIay have gone there."

I WIIS to [cam later that the gang h!l.d a meeting plnee in that parish, between the towns of lkoton and Plain Dealing.

The vital part of my infonner's me ... sage W9.8 yet to come. B iB voice lower than ever. he quoted Barrow.

"We will meet ),ou on the road be­lween Sailee /lnd Gihilland belween nine and te~ o 'clock in the mornin«.n the out-­law told the e lder Melhl' in.

Could we trap Barrow on the highway? I ruIIhcd to a te lephone lind called Cap­tain Hamer. My message wall short.

;'Come to Arcadia at once. Get your othcr meo if you can."

There was no time to be loe;t. We wou ld hRl'e to ~e l e<:t a place for tho tl1l\", II plllce distant from hornca. I knew I t would be difficult to find a desirable

. clearing aloog the Gibaland-Sailea road . A fote!! l-lined road would have offered too good an opportuni ty for t he pair to -pe.

THE tentative plan for the lra-,) waa made in my office. Besides nlyaelf, there

were five others in t he room; Captain Hamer, Chief Deputy-Sheriff P renWe M . Oakk.r. of Bienville P arish, Deputy­Sheriffs Aleorn and Hinton, of DalllUl County, llnd Pa y-oiman Gault .

About I I o'clock, 1 took Captain Hamer and Deputy Alcorn in my car to Gibe­land, a little lown BOllthwest of Arcadia. F or the next two h"'ul'lj we drove back and forth O\'er the !landy, graveled road oct""een Gibaland Ilnd Sailea.

Our pla.n made it necessary to establi.ah the lrap aomewhat eloser to Sailes than to Gibaland . Methvin would be drh' ing north o\'er the highway Ilnd we wanted him 10 be the firs~ to arrive Ilt the trap,

At lut we found what seemed to be Il perfect spot. It W&ll about three miles north of Sailel s od ~ituated on a ~traiRht north and 80uth st retch of highway, T he road swung down a fo.i rly sharp grade, over II ~rnall rise and then to a steeper hi ll. T he place for our ambush was on the rillC. The road cut through the smsll hill to lea\'e an embankment of about three feet in height on both llidCII.

The fOr('IJt receded at the point and the sides of the road were lined with low bTlU!h. I n throwing back the earth from tho cut, the highway workera had created a low ridge a long the east embankment. GrslJl5 and weeds along the edge made a perfect CO\·cr.

}'rOIll behind t he ridge could be ob­tained fl good v iew of t he road to the north, We could see the road fo r t hree qllarte l'3 of a mile to the north and a full half mile to the south.

Would C lyde Barrow and "B~nio" Parker keep their appointment with h 'an Methdn? That WIUI all that Will vital to us. We would be ready for them !

We returned to Arcadia to pick up- the other officers. Shortly before 3 0 clock the morning of May 23rd, our poese of flix men lef t Arcadia in two motor cars. Lesa than an hour later 1Ii"e were lIQuatting in the dew-soaked brush and weeds at the trap. OUf cars were hidden deep in t he brush.

T had arranged the men in a line about forty yards long, all on the cast side of the road. Deputies Alcorn and H inton were at tbe nortb end of the line: T hey would be bette r able to identify

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Barrow and "Bonnie" l)arker than other ruembera of our Jl:rollp. Captain H amer, because of h ill ae<:uracy with firearms, was I!tationcd at t he lOuth end. I was Dear the center of the line. C hief Deputy Oakley WIl! at my right and Patrolman Gault to my left.

Deputy H inton was armed 1Ii"i th a Brown inp: au tomatic rifle. Deputy Alcorn, Captain H amer and Patrolman Cault were armed with automatic shotguns loaded with buckshot. Deputy Oakley aDd I were carTying Remington autonllltic rifles and there was a third rifle or that type a,'ailable fo r usc. All of UB, of course, were carrying our regular sidearm!.

Chilled by the dew. we were glad when t he I!UD ro:e Ol'er the tree.. All of UlJ were hunpy. The next meal was the principal topic of diACu!/Iion, and 1Ii"e talked about food to leasen the monotony. Barrow seldom ".'U mentioned. Attacks by swarms of moequitoes did not make t he 1Ii"ait cMier, At about daylight I called to D eputy H inton,

.. How are the groceriCll holding out, T ed ?"

" What grocerica? I hlw e eat(!n t he !Stock off your ri fle llnd am slarting on the barrel."

Our plan W&II to stop M eth,·in III he drove along the resd . We would force him to park at the side of t he highway. awailing the appearance of Barrow a od "Bonnie" P arker. We wanted to capt ure them alive, if possib le. T here would be no chance of that if we tried to atop t heir car liS it sped over the road . Barrow Wafl Imown to be a fas t drh·er . A barri­cade would hlw e sJ':C?i led any chance we ruip:b t have of aVOIding blood~hed.

T he sound of a motor came .from the 8Outh . I nstant ly all members of the group dropped to reclining poait ions in lha undergrowth. A truck pulled OI'er t he hill . It appeared famili~r to me. As it drew clneer I recognized the dri\"Cr. When it was about fi ft.y yards from the trap I stepped into t he ro:l.d aDd ~ig ­Daled the dri" er to !!top,

H e was l\"IlD Met.hvin. All the truck pulled to a halt the other

officers stood up. Methvin looked at t hem ,

" What 's the trouble?" he aued. "'''e have 5Ct a trap for Barrow and

" Bonnie" P arker, M ethvin," I laid, ''1''e are going to take them whcn )"ou meet t hem on the road. R ight here is where t he meeting is going to t:l.ke place."

I F Methvin had any objedion to the idea he did not put it in to word!. He

pulled hill truck o\'er to the wen side of the road, wI! headed north. It trtood direetiy aCI"()I!3 the highway (rom Deputies Alcorn and Binton.

"P u ll off that righ t front wheel ," I instructed him. "I want to gh'e the effect that you have a fiat ti re. Barrow will slop when he 9CCS you."

I told Methvin to etand beside his t ruck. I called the officel'3 t ogether.

" We arc ready," I said. "There ', only one thing morc, D on 't start anything until it ill absolutely certain that Barrow and his woman are in any car that may pull up. Maybe we can take them alive, but I don 't belie\'e we ought to take any UnneC(: 75 e ry chanees. Tf they reach ror their gUD.!l. let them ba" e it!"

As !.be hour of 9 o'clock approached the strain increa8ed. T\I'o or three cars flashing dolVD the highway from the north caul!Cd added teWlCneBl! l a we awaited the word from Deputiea H inlon and Alcorn. F or each of these caTII they !Shouted :

"No I" At 9 :15 a car nneed over the nort h hill

lind started down the grade, At the dis­tance we could tell that it Willi a Ford

75 .,

V-8, It wae the type of ClI.r that BarTOW wu driving, accordmg to my informant.

A! it drew closer we could distinguish ita color ae light tan . T hat, also, checked with my infornla t ion . T raveling at a paee of about forty-five milCII an bour. it rapidly Wafl culling down the di~tance.

The drivcr apjl!l rently saw Meth"in , The car began to ~Iow d own.

Deputy Alcorn, crouc.hing, peered through the \I·ced!, H is rIfle WM in his right hand. H is left hand was stretched out behind him ready to emphll~i ze a signal.

" H 's Barrow!" he called. "The P arker womlin's with. him!" The car was about a hundred yards

away, traveling at a much Illower !peed. The occupants, looking at Meth \'in, ap­parently fe lt ~are. '£he first warning had seDt a "ibration up' my spine. As the time neared when life or death hinged on split-lICCOnd action, the laut fC(:ling pamed . I was read.y, I could see mOl!t of t he other men ID the pDSIlC. None ~howed the !Sli jhtest trace of nervommess.

" Bob," 1 cal cd. " Be sure, man I" D eputy, Alcorn replied. H is words

barely •. were audible . " 1 knellt! WI Barrow and hia woman.

Stead"I"

A H EAVY rumble from the 80uth caused me to look in that direction. A

wood-pulp truck " IS approaching IIt.a fair tale of $peed. Two N eglOcs were In the cab, It seemed l1li though the trock migh L present a ~h ie ld lor the Barrow car, Then the truck fllowed down to a crawling speed. Evident ly the driver feared a col­li~ion.

The F ord I!lCdan came to a halt betwccn my men and M ethvin's Chevrolet truck.

" Hello. Got a fla.t? " Barrow call&! . "Yes," M eth"in replied . "Did you find

H enry?" " No. n aven't you seen him?" Clyde Barrow "" &II under the wheel 01

the car. "Bonnie" Pa rker wu sitting be· aide him. I obllCryed thankfully that no one WIUI in the rear _to MeLhvin con­tinued the conversation by answering Barrow'fI quefltion in the ncgati,'e. He then spoke to "Bonnie."

" H ave YOIl got Il drink for me?" T here wu no answer to t ha t q uestion,

I jumped to my feet, shouted: "Put 'lim up, el"de! You're covered.'" The tan Ford leaped forward. BarTOW

had ~hifted into low geat alJ he was ta lk­in, to M ethviD. I Wafl wauhing Barrow, HIli left hand Wafl on the steering-wheel. He picked up a gun "" ith his right hand. "' Bonnie" P arker wu !Cen to ra.ilIe a pilltol. Then the door on Barrow', side of the car atll rted to swing OpeD.

Barrow would not flu rrender. The ~hlrp report of a rifle souoded. Itt

echo was drowned by t he roar of six guns, Lead was poured into Barrow's car. The windshield was shattered. Most of the bullets were taking eifct"t there a nd in t he left front door of the sedan.

T he csr continued tll move. Gunfire was raking it from six angles. The glas. in the rear left door was blown to bits. T saw black holca appear in the side of the car. T he noise was deafening.

I had no idea of time. It m ight hll\'e been aD hour that I fltood thenl 00 t he firing line, Actua lly, everything was 0\'1'1 in sc<:onde.

I IIllW Barro,, 's head fall agaillBt tha back of the seat, Blood was gushing ouL I flaw "Bonn ie" P arker slump forward u if to pick aomething off the floor of the "' ..

T he motor of the Ford had died. Still in gear, the car coasted jerkily. It rolled into the ditch on the west side of tIle road, coming to a stop agaillllt the side

76 of the embankment. There was no sign of movement inside the car.

All of us leaped ooto the gT'\weled rood aDd rnn toward the SUllied machine. Our weapon.!! were ready. But even then, we kncl\' that we could discard our guD!!. Nothing could have lived through that' volley of more than a hundred and fift)" shota.

Clyde Barrow was dead ! "Boonie" Parker, her head between her knees, '1'1'11.8

dead! T hey had been unable to fire a ~hot.

I looked down the road at the wood­pulp t ruck. It hlld stopped at the first shol. T he two Negroes who bad occu­pied the cab had fled into the timber.

The back of 8 l n ow's head literally had been beaten ioto a pulp by the hail of lead. H e had been 8tl'uck a t least a dozen t imce in the body. Six or seven bullets had ta ken effect in "Bonnie" P/lrker'a face. We later fou nd that ahe had been atnlck by twenty-five abal.!! . Her right hand virtually was eut oil. Both of the outlaws had been cut badly b~' flyi ng glllSil.

In t.he lap of Clyde Barrow WIl9 a eawed-oll 16-gauge automat ic shotgun. His right hand was curled a round the ahortened stock. Seven grim notches had been carved in the wood by the ki ller . In " Bonnie's" lap W88 a .45 caliber auto­matic pistol. T here were three notches on thiS gun. Between the pa ir was another automat ic shotgun.

ON the ftOOT of the car W!\.ll a bag con­taining forty clip!:! for a Browning

Ilutomatic rifte. T hree riftee of that type were in the rear of the car. All were loaded. Under II. robe on the rear seat were ten Il.\ltomatic pistols and one re \'olver, all fully loaded. T hree bags and a box con­tained more than two thouMnd rounds of ammunition .

Clyde Barrow and the red-haired "Bon­ne" had been ready for us, or any other officelll that might ha\'e accosted them. We gave them a chance to IJUrrender. T hey refused. Six T exll3 and Louisiana offieers are ali\'e today because they shot fiTllt and 8hot fast and straight.

While we wete e)(amininl[ the car .and the bodies of its occupant8. h an Methvin rel)laeed the wheel on his truck. He dro\'e a way.

A few minutes later te legraph and tele­phone wires were carrying the news of our success. I remained at the 8CCne while Captain H ilmer and Deputy Alcorn drove to Gibsland to report to T exaa officials. Chief Depul.\' Oakl ,. \, not ified Coroner J . L . Wade of the killings.

Coroner Wade ordered the bodies moved to Arcadia. T he tan Ford sedan, which we later learned had been stolen from a resident of T f)peka. Kansas, was towed to the parish site. It served ll.iJ a hearse for Clyde Barrow and "Bonnie" Parker on that eighteen-mile ride.

I n Arcadia, a clO6Cr examination was mllde of the contents of the outlaw ca r. F ifteen sets of liceMC plates under the rellr !!eat indicated one of Bllrrow's favor­ite tricks to dude capture. A plli r of sun ~lsSSCll t hat had been worn by the bandit wcre found on the scst. T he lenSCl! !lad been shattered by our bullets.

"Bonnie'I" o\'ern ight case was - in the rell r of tJle car. It contained lipst ick, rouge, powder and various personal effects. Also in the rear of the ca r was a suo­phone and se\'eral sheels of mmic. In the trunk on !.he back of the machine wt1.8 a bag containing Barrow's extra clothi~g , a hot wntf r bottle and two magulnes.

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At the time of her death, "Bonnie" was wearing a red d re!ll and red shoes. She was wearing II. wedding ring, but that must have been onc of the few concCl!­sioD!! to appearances ever made by "Bon­nie." She Willi not married to Barrow.

On Ba rrow's person was found more than fi ve hundred dollars. T he young killer WlUl d ressed in b lue t rousers s nd a white shirt. His tic, hanging on the rear \'imon mirror, had been shredded b)' bullets. I ncidentally, he died with hiS shoes 011. T hey were on the floo r of the car .

We were compelled to lock the ear in the jail yard . Souv.eni r hunters threat­ened to tear the machine to pieces. T he streets around the jail and the Conger Funera l Parlor, where the bodies were taken, were jammed by the curioua. The

r,0pulat ion of Arcadia wal mul tiplied by our times within a few hours.

After arriving in Arcadia, I informed state authori ties of the sllCl!eS8:fu l trap. An hour or so later I recei\'l~d this tele­gram from the GOI'ernor of Loui.,iana:

S HERI FF H END ERSON J ORDAN ARCADI A LA YOU ARE TO SF. CONG RATU LAT ED UPON TH E CAPTURE 0 1' TWO OF TH E MOST NOTORIOUS OUTLAWS IN T H E SOUT HWEST IT IS ONLY BY SUCH DILIGENCE AND ACTION AS \'OU H AVE S HOWN THAT CRI ME CAN BE STAMPED OUT

o K ALLEN GOV ER NOR

A coroner's jury reported thllt sftemoon that thc outlaws had been killed by offi­cers in the line of duty. D uring the n ight the bodies were removed to Dallas by relat ives. Mr. Darb)~ the undertaker, once a v ictim of the "Hloody Barrows," aMistad in the embalming.

County officials from Fort Worth, T exas, requested permission to fire test shOLl from the 16-gauge shotgun foun d in Barrow's lap. T he discharged cart­ridge ca~CI were gillen to George Lacy, Houston, Tuas, ballist ics expert . He compared the firing pin marks of the ca rtridge cases with those on discharged shells foun d at the scene of the murder of the two Texas Highway Pauolmen.

T he markings were ident ical. T he test. substantiated previous e" idenee that Clyde Barrow and "Bonnie" Parker had killed Patrolman Wheeler and M urphy the morning of Easter Sunday.

THE tnil of the "Bloody Barrows" had been brought to a eonelusion. A few

days after Clyde Barrow and " Bonnie" Parker had. been buried, a Teus jury added what might be called an excl/UIlll­tion mll rk. Raymond Hamilton was sen­tenced to death in thc electric chlli r for the murder of the prison fs nn gusrd.

The dog~erel clegy which follo ws was written by 'Bonnie" Parker. I t had been gh'en to a Dallas newspaper with the understanding thae it would not be pub­lished before her dealll.

You have read the story of J C8ISC James, Of how he lived and died . If you still are in need of sometbing to

read, Here is t he story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde lire the Barrow gllng,

I 'm sure yOIl a ll have relld How they rob and llteal, And how those who squeal, Are m ua lJy fou nd d ~' i ng or dead.

There are lots of untruths to their write-

""', They are not 80 merciless lUI that ; They hate all the laws, T he stool pigeom" !!potters and rats. Thcy cla.ss them as cold-blooded killers, T hey say they are heartless and mean, But I MY this with pride, That I once knew C lyde When he was honest and upright and

clean.

But the law fooled around, Kept tracking him down, And locking him up in a cell, T ill he .taid to me, "I will never be free, "So I will meet a few of them in hell."

T his rood was SO dimly lighted T here were no highway signs to guide, But they made up in thei r minds If t he roads Werc a ll blind They wouldn't gh'e up ti ll they died.

T he road gets dim mer and dimmer , Sometimes you can hardly see, Still it's fight , man to man, And do all you (l8.ll,

For they kno",' the}' ClIn ne\'er be fref'

If they try to act like ci tizens, And rent them a n ice little flat, About lhe third night they are in \'itcv ..

fight By a sub-machinc gun rat-tat-Lat.

If s policeman is killed in Da lllUl And !hey have no cJ Uel! for a guidE' ; If they can't find a fricnd They just wipe the slate clean And hnng it on Bo~~ and Clyde.

,

T wo crimes ha\'e been done in America . Not accredi ted to the Barrow mob, For they had no hand In the kidnapping demand Or the Kansas City depot job.

A newgboy once said to his buddy, " I wished old C lyde would get jumped, " In this awful hard times "We might make a fe w extra dimes ''If five or mx laws got bumped."

T he police haven't got the report yet, Clyde sent a wireleea today. Saying. " We hM'e a pe:ace flag of wbite "We stretch out at mg~lt , "We ha\'e joined the NRA."

T hey don't think they are too tough or desperate.

They know the law always wins, They h[we been ~hot at before But they do not ignore T hllt deal·h was the wages of sin.

F rom heartbreaks some people have !IlllTered ,

From wearinC88 SOni C people ha\'e d ied, But take it all in all, Our troubles are small, T ill we get like Bonnie and C lyde .

SOnle day they will go do'lll'D together , And they will bury them side by aid~ To a fe w it means grief, T o 'he law it 's relief, But it is death to Bonnie and C lyd&.

"Bonnie" Parker's apparent dCllire to be buried beside Clyde Barrow was denied. T heir graves. in di llerent ceme­teries, are miles apart .

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