| Show YOE DE BARROW RR AND HI HISS HIS s GIRL L. L KILLED Murderous Outlaw Pair Shot Down From Ambush U I 1 I 4 L s f A 4 if i 4 p p ir T 1 4 4 4 S S S S S r 7 4 S V S J JS 4 l' l IS ISS S 3 I S L s. s S S s S. S r Lf L p 4 f Jj J t 5 Bonnie Parker larker in characteristic pose with gun in hand band and cigar In month mOuth Inset Clyde Barrow Posses Posse's Guns Blaze From Highway rap in j- j Louisiana I BOTH BODIES ARE RIDDLED r Officers Beat Desperadoes to to F Draw 5 By Associated Press ARCADIA La May 23 23 Clyde Clyde Barrow Harrow and his comp compan compan- nIon n- n Ion on Bonnie Parker were beaten to the he trigger pull by Texas and arid Lou Louisiana Louisi iana i- i ana officers toda today Their crime career ended in a blaze of ot riot gun fire lire when disregarding a command to halt and unable to get their heir weapons into play the desperado and hI his smoking cigar sweetheart crumpled up ir in the front scat eat of acar a acar car cat traveling at 85 miles an hour The car careened into an embankment embankment embank embank- ment and was wrecked Both bodies were riddled with buI bul lets Bonnie Bonnie's was almost doubled over the machine gun she had held in il her lap Barrows Barrow's broken body was twist twisted d behind the steering wheel a revolver gripped in one hand Follow Bandit Car CarThe CarThe CarThe The trap was sprung by Frank Hamer Hamer Ha Ha- mer a former Texas ranger B. 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M Gault h highway patrolman and Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn Dallas county county coun coun- ty sheriffs sherif Is Hamer recently was Vas commissioned commissioned com corn as a highway patrolman for forthe forthe the special purpose of getting his man and and his Hamer and Gault had been watchIng watchIng watching watch watch- ing the Black ck k lake hideout two months Several weeks ago they barely barely barely bare bare- ly missed the couple at tb the The bandits bandits' trail was wai picked up this morning by Hamer and three Texas ranger associates in Bossier parish where Barrow was reported to have relatives They Zollow followed d the bandit car to Bienville parish where the rangers were joined by Sheriff Henderson Hen derson Jordon and a staff stall of ties Runs Into The officers got ahead of the bandit car and lay in wait until Barrow ran his car into the ambush With the posse heavily armed hid hid- ig g in brush along the highway Barrows Barrow's Barrows Barrow's Barrows Barrow's Bar Bar- rows row's car broke over the horizon racing racing rac rae ing at 85 miles an hou hour As the car approached hed an nn officer yelled halt haiti Barrow and the woman answered by reaching for their guns and Vere ere met by a fusillade from the posse The automobile smashed into an embankment and the officers con continued contin tinlI tin tin- lI tied d to fire tire until the bodies were rid rid- died In the wrecked ear cay ol officers cers found three army rifles two sawed sawed-of f shotguns shotguns shot shot- guns a machine gun a dozen pistols and large l rge quantities of ammunition Killing Killin Follows Tip Hamers Hamer's laconic report We killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Bonnie Bonnie Bon Bon- nie at this morning They were at Black lake a hideout we had been watching for weeks Clyde and Bonnie Bonnie Bon Boa nie did not not get get to fire a shot Their car was full of guns and ammunition but they did not get a chance to use them Sheriff Jordon of Bienville parish said he had received a tip that the First National bank of Arcadia was to be robbed Wednesday or Thurs Thurs- da day He lie immediately notified Texas officers Jordon Jordan said the pair came from Benton enton La yesterday afternoon and passed through h about 4 I or 5 p. p m. m and again this morning shortly before the killing Led Lcd Lurid Career Barrow Darrow and his companion had led officers in a wild chase over half a dozen states Frequently they were cornered but eluded their pursuers or shot it out They replenished their funds by robbing banks Barrow was regarded as one of or the nations nation's most dangerous killers shooting shoot shoot- shooting ing at the bat of ot an eye and fleeing in fast automobiles I Bonnie was charged by the he officers with participation in most of Barrows Barrow's Barrows Barrow's Barrows Barrow's Bar Bar- rows row's later crimes Officers said she Continued on Pare Pan To Two CLYDE CL r- r YOE BARROW AND GIRL SLAIN Murderous Outlaw Pair Are Arc S. S Shot Down From Ambush l 4 Continued from Irom Page Pote One was 3 as quick on the trigger as her associate and just as elusive c v The bodies were brought here 17 miles mites east of the thc scene of the killings The shooting occurred about six miles mUes west cf d the old Mt Lebanon community I Barrows Barrow's Mother Stricken Grief DALLAS Texas May fa 23 iP Henry Herry Barrow mother of oC Clyde Clyde- Barrow Barrow Barrow Bar Bar- row southwest killer slain n In 1st Louisiana Louisi Louisi- ana aM cried out In anguish toda today when informed her son had been shot down And I prayed only last night that I might see sec him alive again gain just once more she sobbed Mrs Emma Parker m mother ther of ot Bonnie Bonnie Bon Bond nie Parker killed with Clyde fainted when informed by telephone that her daughter too too had been killed I Henry Barrow father of ot Clyde said at his fillin filling station west of Dallas that he believed Mrs Barrow would I Co go 0 to Louisiana I |
