MYSTERIES

A MACFADDEN PUBLICATION VOL.23

NO2
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" Deportment
THE MIRACLE OF THE BLACK.HOODED MAN-A MISSISSIPPI MURDER MYSTERY . .. 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
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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 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
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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 70
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LINE-UP CAPTURES .............. . . ... . . . .. ... .. .. . .. ...... ... .. ....... . .... . . .. .. . :.. . ... . . . 72
BRA vas AND BULLETS. . . ... . . .. .. . ... . . .... . . .. ...... . ...... .. .... .. .. . . . .... . . . .. . . . ....... .. .. . 73
T. D. M. CLUES CONTEST............................................ .. ... . .. .. .. . ..... . .. . ....... .. 119
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co via IT DALTON SllVINS

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... Ito, U. 5. A, . .......... Colo. Co .. "",.,. Ow.,IL, .. .... J.
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The Inside Story of
E
ARLY 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
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, even that of John
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 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
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 onl y 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 Ar kAll8M. RUllton is about twenty-fpiC
mile8 cad of Arcadia.
The afternoon of Much 24th, 1934, one of my deputu in-
fonned 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 Investigation,
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(Abot-.) Part of c:unou. crowd tut pthcnd around
the lind 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 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 Bar-
row'. e&rlier crjmi
n
.! 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 him just. ineide my parish," I said, down
in the 8Outh'fVfl8t Comer."
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 quee-
tioM about neighbol"l. A new neighbor ill an event of impor-
tance 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

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 beenfrequenting 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
01 u.s BE 104 f 7 k
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 out-
laWl? 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 ofANsdia. Without
re\'e&ling my information, I urged the Jo' ederal operative to
come w my office immediately. Two hoW'l later we were dia-
eU8fling plaWJ for trapping the killel'1!l . The Agent was thor-
oughly 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
The Inside Stcry of the K ilUng of" Bonn;''' Parker and Clyde Barrow
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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
& 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 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 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-


(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
C'O""; .... over the biD b:l the t 7 'C'N",d
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
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 immedite 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.
A
LTHOUGH &torie& about the officer were legion, General
Man.ger SimmQM knew that CapLain Hamer W&8 cJoe.
mouthed, declinina: 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, Sim-
moM 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 d&)'II after the priBon camp de-
livery, 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 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 ana-
lyzed. 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 activ-
ities, 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.
C
APTAIN 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 Deputy-
Sheriff 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 further detail. The hour was late.
when this important oonference wan ended.
When it WAR over the HalTl6r-A loom com-
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f
,
/'
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 {ollow-
ing 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>

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.p-
ture; and CapUlin Frank
Hamer. well-known Ten.
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and the pyschology of the
perpetratoM:l .
More than fifteen thou-
sand 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 comeredr
'They learned that Barrow appArently wa.s a strong be-
liever io hunches. The bandit leader would stop his car in one
of his mad dashes. back-track for miles and again 8uddenly
chang!! his direction. His movements seemingly were with-
out rhyme or reaWl O_ 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 in-
vestigators was cleared up by the officers. That was the time
that Barrow and the young waitre88 disappeared following
the of two officeI'!! near WellinfO,olJ , Texas. last
.,
(Lelt) Chief Deputy Prwti ..
M. 0aIdey. of P; h riDe Par-
ith. pc Ed with stolaa Iic:alK
plates found in tbc: BIuTow
CaI". The out1aw cbaoced
?bite. olten to .al __ iden
tmeation
ye&r. "Bonnie" at
time wa.s suffering
\hAt
'rom
severe burtl8 reoeived in a
wreck.
Alter binding the kidnap-
ped 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 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 Patrolmenr The officers were brutaJly killed near
Crapevine. betwefln the cities of Dallas (Continutti on page 74)
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74 True Detective Mysteries
The Inside Story of the Killing of "Bonnie" Parker and Clyde Barrow
and Fort. Worth. L. G. Phares. head of
the Patrol 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. Okla-
homa. In their escape !.hey kidnapped
Chief of Poli ce Percy Boyd, releaain, the
offiter later in Kan(18.8. It was then
that Attorney-General Homer S. Cum-
mings 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
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 before the gang
would be cornered.
R
AYMOND HAMILTON W!\.S captured
May 25th. He Wil.l fleeing from
Le"u.,iIle where he had robbed tbe l''irst
National Bank. Hami lton 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 had occurred at Terre Haute,
Indiana.
When Hamilton 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
ticipated 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 Hamil-
ton had the extreme penalty wed
by t he state . . 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
The linal letter, mailed to
Hamilton. "'1\.1 received May 15th. Bar-
row ealled his former partner a. "killer
and a yellow punk." Be accuaed Ramil -
ton of attemptiol to take more than hill
!hare of the bank loot..
A linger-print on letter 111'11.8 identi-
fied as that of Clyde Barrow by Douglu
Wal'lh, identification of the Dallas
Police Department. The print was iden-
tified by at lean twenty count. .
Gradualil. Captain Barner, Deputy
com 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
Irom page 45)
of Barrow indicates the t horoughne81
with which they worked.
Shortly after the date that my
had flliled to materialize. Captain Hamer
and Deputy Akorn da.!hed into Shreve-
port, 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 in-
formation.
A few hours later I had made tbe ac-
quaintance 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 Texaa officers mi&ht reach tbe ear
of BlUTOw, it was a,reed that Captain
Barner 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 UDder-
cover man. We made plana for a cau-
tioua 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
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
might 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 de-
IICribed 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 May 9th. I ea.lled Cap-
tain Barner. 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?"
There WILl DO doubt about the response.
Captain Hamer agreed to stay at a
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.
S
ITUATED deep in a forest of pine
trees the houae 11'81 a mile and a quar-
ter off state Hihway 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
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 iDltitu-
tion. A COlUltant guard wu to be main-
tained 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
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" Parker had visited the old Cole
place near Sailea Monday 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 re-
turned to the place, but bad been uua.ble
to find Methvin.
Alarmed over the separation from
Benry, Barrow and "Bonnie" returned to
the Cole place. They arrh'ed there be
t ween 6 and 6 o'clock. They soon learned
that Melhlin had not returned to hia
father ', home. Barrow gavc an order to
Ivan Me!.hlj D.
" 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 meeti ng 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 be-
lween Sailee /lnd Gihilland belween nine
and o'clock in the mornin.n the out--
law told the elder Melhl' in.
Could we trap Barrow on the highway?
I ruIIhcd to a telephone lind called Cap-
tain 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 a place for tho tl1l\",
II pl llce distant from hornca. I knew I t
would be difficult to fi nd 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.
T
HE 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 PrenWe M.
Oakk.r. of Bienville Parish, Deputy-
Sheriffs 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 Gibe-
land, a littl e lown BOllthwest of Arcadia.
For 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 Sai les than
to Gibaland. Methvin would be drh' ing
north o\'er the highway Ilnd we wanted
him 10 be the 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 on a
north and 80uth st retch of highway, T he
road swung down a fo.i rly sharp grade,
over II 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 li ned wit h 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 ob-
tained fl good view of t he road to the
north, We could see the road for t hree
qllartel'3 of a mile to the north and a
full half mile to the south.
Would Clyde Barrow and
Parker keep their appointment with h 'an
Met hdn? That WIUI all that Will vital
to us. We would be ready for them!
We returned to Arcadia to pick up- the
other offi cers. Shortly before 3 0 clock
the morning of May 23rd, our poese of
fli x 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. Deputi es Alcorn and
Hinton were at tbe nortb end of the line:
T hey would be better able to identify
True Detect-/:ve Mysteries
Barrow and "Bonni e" l)arker than other
ruembera of our Jl:rollp. Captain Hamer,
because of hill ae<:uracy with firearms,
was I!tationcd at t he lOuth end. I was
Dear the center of the line. Chief Deputy
Oakley WIl! at my right and Patrolman
Gault to my left.
Deputy Hinton was armed 1Ii"i th a
Brown inp: automatic rifle. Deputy Alcorn,
Captain Hamer 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 for usc. All of UB, of course,
were carrying our regular si dearm!.
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. Att acks
by swarms of moequitoes did not make
t he 1Ii"ait cMier, At about daylight I
called to Deputy Hinton,
.. How are the groceriCll holding out,
T ed ?"
" What grocerica? I hlwe eat(!n t he
!Stock off your ri fl e llnd am slarting on
the barrel."
Our plan W&II to stop Meth,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" Parker. We wanted to capt ure
them alive, if possible. 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 fast drher . A barri -
cade would hlwe sJ':C?i led any chance we
ruip:bt have of aVOI ding
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 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
Daled the dri" er to !!top,
He 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" Parker, Methvin," 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 into word!. He
pulled hill truck o\'er to the wen si de of
the road, wI! headed nort h. It trtood
direetiy aCI"()I!3 the highway (rom Deputies
Alcorn and Binton.
"Pull off that right 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 call ed the officel'3 t ogether.
" We arc ready," I said. " There', only
one thing morc, Don' 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 ali ve,
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
fl ashing dolVD the highway from the north
caul!Cd added teWlCneBl! l a we awaited the
word from Deputiea Hinlon and Alcorn.
For 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 dis-
tance we could tell that it Willi a Ford
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.,
V-8, It wae the type of ClI.r that BarTOW
wu driving, accordmg to my informant.
A! it drew closer we could disti nguish
ita color ae light tan. That, also, checked
with my infornlat ion. Traveling at a paee
of about forty-five milCII an bour. it
rapidly Wafl culli ng down the
The drivcr apjl!l rently saw Meth"in,
The car began to down.
Deputy Al corn, crouc.hing, peered
through the \Iced!, His rIfl e WM in his
right hand. His left hand was stret ched
out behind hi m ready to a
si gnal.
" 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, ap-
parently fe lt 'he first warning had
seDt a "i bration 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
the !Sli jhtest trace of nervommess.
" Bob," 1 cal cd. " Be sure, man I"
Deputy, Alcorn replied. His words
barely . were audible .
" 1 knellt! WI Barrow and hia woman.
Stead"I"
A
HEAVY rumble from the 80uth
caused me t o look in that direction. A
wood-pulp truck " IS approaching IIt.a fair
tale of $peed. Two NeglOcs were In the
cab, It seemed l1li though the trock migh L
present a l or the Barrow car, Then
the truck fl lowed down to a crawling
speed. Evident ly the driver feared a col-

The Ford I!lCdan came to a halt betwccn
my men and Methvin's Chevrolet truck.
" Hello. Got a fla.t?" Barrow call&! .
"Yes," Meth"i n replied. "Did you find
Henry?"
" No. n aven't you seen him?"
Clyde Barrow "" &II under the wheel 01
the car. "Bonnie" Pa rker wu sitting be
aide hi m. I obllCryed thankfully that no
one WIUI in the rear _to MeLhvin con-
tinued the conversation by answering
Barrow'fI quefltion in the ncgati,'e. He
then spoke to "Bonnie."
" Have YOIl got Il drink for me?"
T here wu no answer to t ha t question,
I jumped t o my feet, shouted:
"Put 'lim up, el"de! You're covered.'"
The tan Ford leaped forward. BarTOW
had into low geat alJ he was talk-
in, to MethviD. I Wafl wauhing Barrow,
HIli left hand Wafl on the steering-wheel.
He picked up a gun "" ith his right hand.
"' Bonnie" Parker wu !Cen to ra.ilIe a
pilltol. Then the door on Barrow', side
of the car atll rt ed to swing OpeD.
Barrow would not flu rrender.
The 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 might 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 "Bonnie" Parker 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
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of t he embankment. There was no sign
of movement inside the car.
All of us leaped ooto t he gT'\wel ed 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 t han a hundred and fift)"
shota.
Clyde Barrow was dead ! "Boonie"
Parker, her head between her knees, '1'1' 11.8
dead! They had been unable to fire a

I looked down the road at the wood-
pulp t ruck. It hlld stopped at t he first
shol. The t wo Negroes who bad occu-
pied the cab had fled into the ti mber.
The back of 8 l n ow's head literally
had been beaten ioto a pul p by the hail
of lead. He had been 8tl'uck at least a
dozen t imce in the body. Six or seven
bull ets had ta ken effect in "Bonnie"
P/lrker'a face. We later found that ahe
had been atnlck by t wenty-five abal.!!.
Her right hand virtually was eut oil.
Both of the outlaws had been cut badly
flyi ng glllSil.
In t. he lap of Clyde Barrow WIl9 a
eawed-oll 16-gauge automat ic shotgun.
His right hand was curled around the
ahortened stock. Seven grim notches had
been carved in the wood by the ki ller .
In " Bonnie's" lap W88 a .45 caliber auto-
mat ic pistol. T here were three notches
on thiS gun. Between t he pa ir was
another automat ic shotgun.
O
N the ft OOT of the car W!\.ll a bag con-
taining forty clip!:! for a Browning
Ilutomatic rifte. T hree rift ee of t hat type
were in t he 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 con-
tained more than two t houMnd rounds
of ammunition.
Clyde Barrow and the red-haired "Bon-
ne" had been ready for us, or any other
officelll that might ha\'e accosted them.
We gave them a chance to IJUrrender.
They refused. Six Texll3 and Louisiana
offi eers 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 away.
A few minutes lat er telegraph and tele-
phone wires were carrying the news of
our success. I remained at the 8CCne
while Captain Hilmer and Deputy Alcorn
drove to Gibsland to report to Texaa
officials. Chief Depul.\' Oakl ,. \, not ified
Coroner J. L. Wade of the killings.
Coroner Wade ordered t he bodies
moved to Arcadia. The tan Ford sedan,
whi ch we later learned had been stolen
from a resident of Tf)peka. Kansas, was
towed to the parish site. It served ll.iJ a
hearse for Clyde Barrow and "Bonnie"
Parker on that eight een-mil e ride.
I n Arcadia, a cl O6Cr examination was
mll de of the contents of the outlaw car.
Fifteen sets of li ceMC plates under the
rellr !!eat indicated one of Bllrrow's favor-
ite tricks to dude capture. A plli r of
sun t hat had been worn by t he
bandit wcre found on the scst. T he
lenSCl! !lad been shattered by our bullets.
"Bonnie'I" o\'ernight case was - in t he
rell r of tJle car. It contained lipst ick,
rouge, powder and various personal effects.
Also in the rear of the car was a suo-
phone and se\'eral sheels of mmi c. In
t he trunk on !.he back of t he machine
wt1.8 a bag containing Barrow's extra
a hot wntf r bottle and two
magulnes.
True Detective Mysteries
At t he ti me of her death, "Bonnie"
was wearing a red dre!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 "Bon-
nie." She Willi not married to Barrow.
On Barrow's person was found more
t han fi ve hundred dollars. T he young
killer WlUl dressed in blue t rousers s nd a
white shi rt. His tic, hanging on the
rear \'imon mirror, had been shredded b)'
bull ets. I ncidentally, he di ed with hiS
shoes 011. T hey were on the floor of t he
car .
We were compelled to lock the ear in
the jail yard . Souv.eni r hunters t hreat-
ened to tear t he machine to pieces. The
streets around t he jail and the Conger
Funeral Parlor, where the bodies were
taken, were j ammed by t he curioua. The
r,
0pulat ion of Arcadia wal mul tiplied by
our ti mes within a few hours.
After arri ving in Arcadia, I informed
state authori ties of the sllCl!eS8:ful trap.
An hour or so later I this tele-
gram from the GOI'ernor of Loui.,iana:
S HERI FF HENDERSON J ORDAN
ARCADI A LA
YOU ARE TO SF. CONGRATULATED
UPON THE CAPTURE 0 1' TWO OF
THE MOST NOTORIOUS OUTLAWS
IN THE SOUTHWEST IT I S ONLY
BY SUCH DILIGENCE AND ACTION
AS \'OU HAVE S HOWN THAT CRI ME
CAN BE STAMPED OUT
o K ALLEN GOVERNOR
A coroner's jury reported thllt sftemoon
t hat thc outlaws had been killed by offi-
cers in the line of duty. During t he
night the bodies were removed to Dallas
by relat ives. Mr. the undertaker,
once a victim of t he "Hloody Barrows,"
aMistad in the embalming.
County officials from Fort Worth,
Texas, requested permission to fire test
shOLl from the 16-gauge shotgun found
in Barrow's lap. The discharged cart-
ridge were gillen to George Lacy,
Houston, Tuas, ballist ics expert . He
compared the firing pi n marks of t he
ca rtridge cases with t hose on discharged
shells found at the scene of the murder
of t he two Texas Highway Pauolmen.
The marki ngs were ident ical. T he test.
substantiated previous e" idenee that Clyde
Barrow and "Bonnie" Parker had killed
Patrol man Wheeler and Murphy the
morning of Easter Sunday.
T
HE 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/UIlll-
tion mll rk. Raymond Hamilton was sen-
tenced to death in thc electric chlli r for
the murder of the prison fs nn gusrd.
The clegy which follows was
written by ' Bonnie" Parker. I t had been
gh'en to a Dallas newspaper with the
understanding t hae it would not be pub-
lished before her dealll.
You have read the story of J C8ISC James,
Of how he lived and died.
If you st ill are in need of sometbing to
read,
Here is t he story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Now Bonnie and Clyde lire the Barrow
gll ng,
I 'm sure yOIl all have rell d
How they rob and llteal,
And how t hose who squeal,
Are mualJy found or dead.
There are lots of untrut hs to their write-
""',
They are not 80 merciless lUI that ;
They hate all the laws,
The stool pigeom" !!potters and rats.
Thcy cla.ss them as cold-blooded killers,
They say they are heartless and mean,
But I MY this with pride,
That I once knew Clyde
When he was honest and upright and
clean.
But the law fooled around,
Kept tracking him down,
And locking him up in a cell,
Till 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 gui de,
But they made up in thei r minds
If t he roads Werc all blind
They wouldn't gh'e up ti ll they died.
The road gets dimmer and di mmer ,
Sometimes you can hardly see,
Still it's fi ght , man to man,
And do all you (l8.ll,
For t hey kno",' the}' ClI n ne\'er be fref'
If they try to act like ci tizens,
And rent them a nice little flat,
About lhe t hird night t hey are in\'itcv ..
fi ght
By a sub-machinc gun rat-tat-Lat.
If s policeman is killed in DalllUl
And !hey have no cJUel! for a guidE' ;
If they can' t fi nd a fricnd
They j ust wipe the slate clean
And hnng it on 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 Clyde would get j umped,
"In this awful hard times
"We might make a fe w extra dimes
''If five or mx laws got bumped."
The police haven't got the report yet,
Clyde sent a wireleea today.
Saying. " We hM'e a pe:ace flag of wbi te
"We stretch out at
"We ha\'e joined the NRA."
They don't think they are too tough or
desperate.
They know the law always wins,
They h[we been at before
But they do not ignore
T hllt dealh was the wages of sin.
From heartbreaks some people have
!IlllTered,
From wearinC88 SOni C peopl e ha\'e died,
But take it all in all,
Our troubles are small,
Till we get li ke Bonni e and Clyde.
SOnle day they will go do'lll'D together ,
And they will bury them side by
To a fe w it means grief,
To 'he law it 's relief,
But it is death to Bonnie and Clyd&.
"Bonnie" Parker's apparent dCllire to
be buried beside Clyde Barrow was
denied. Their graves. in di llerent ceme-
teries, are miles apart .
Till: END