Show BANDIT AIDS AID'S I I FATHER PLANS BARROW TRAP Convicts Convict's Parent De Deals ls With WithLaw WithLaw WithLaw Law Because He Fears Gun Battle OFFICERS WATCH HIDEOUT Curious Fight for Glimpse of Bodies By nr United Pr u ARCADIA La May 24 24 Officers cers disclosed today how v carefully laid plans and protracted negotiations brought a spectacular end to the trail trailor of or murder and banditry left lell by Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker At Ashland in the piney woods area lives Irwin Methvin father fathel of Henry Methvin Barrow lieutenant who was delivered vered by the desperado from Eastham prison farm January Janu ary 16 Louisiana officers watched the rutted rutted rutted rut rut- ted roadway leading leadin to Ashland after after atter af at- af- af ter Cap Captain in Frank Hamer Texas investigator investigator in in- and Bob Alcorn Texas deputy informed them that Barrow made frequent dashes there Fearing the safety of his family would be jeopardized if Barrow and associates were cornered at the Meth- Meth vm yin home the elder Methvin said to toLay officers Lay off oU watching my home and Ill I'll help you trap him up the road He kept his promise I Hamer and his men waited for days lat at Shreveport for the expected call cali whereupon they were serc to join Sheriff Henderson Jordan and his men Barrow had one entrance to the theM Il f M Methvin home from the north The They knew he was north of ot here officers said Tuesday the long wait began with officer entrenched d. d Eq Equipped with v po powerful field field- glasses lasses the they peered into all approaching approach approach- in ing cars to avoid firing iring on the wrong machine They spotted the outlaws far up the road and drew their guns Sun for the most dangerous assignment a southwest officer could draw Knowing that Barrow would at at- Continued on Pace PlUte Two T FRIEND BETRAYS CLYDE BARROW Bandit Lieutenants Lieutenant's Father With Law Fears Gun Oun Battle Continued from Page Pace One tempt empt to answer the first blast of gun gun- gunfire fire Cire ire the thc officers were scattered to avoid void a possible massacre or to keep the he death list in their ranks as low as possible Bandits Seal F Fate te They parked a truck on the narrow roadway to slow down the desperados desperado's automobile His HI car was running slowly lowly as it approached the officers officer's hideout officers rs said lie He clearly heard the command to halt alt they added More daring or fatalistic than other vaunted outlaws Barrow and Bonnie attempted to whip their snub nosed machine guns Into action thereby s sealing ealing alin their fate late But this time the odds were against them hem As word of their death spread men and nd women jammed the main street of f the little town Thousands Thousands Block o lock Streets Street By nightfall thousands were fightIng fight Ing ng In th the streets before the furniture store tore of S. 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A Conger which also serves as an undertaking establish ment Doors were torn from their hInges Furniture was overturned and nd smashed Conger estimated damge dam darn age ge at nearly 1000 There were were more more women than men menn in n the sweating hauling mob Highways High ways leading to Arcadia were choked with cars Some even came by airlane air air- plane lane to catch a n glimpse of the bodies of f the outlaw pair who met death as Bonnie Jonnie predicted they would would would-in in a arap trap rap set by officers Bonnie Writes Ballad d Bonnie in a rambling poem had expressed the wish that she and Barow Barrow Barrow Bar- Bar row ow be buried together but today her mother Mr Mrs Emma Parker Dallas Texas exas said the wish w h would not be ob ob- served No UNo I would never consent to her being eing buried with him she said He took ook her from me when she was alive aUve but ut im i'm Im I'm going to take her from him now She's going to be all mine mine from from now flow on Bonnie wrote that poem all an right but ut I talked with her after she wrote it t. t She didn't really want to be buried wIth Clyde Mrs Parker intimated her daughter would have loft left the perilous company of Barrow but felt she was in lOin too deep Afraid to Break A Away w y She felt she would be arrested or killed if she were away from Barrow and naturally she wanted her free free- dom Henry Barrow who came to Arcadia Arcadia Ar Ar- cadia from Dallas last night to claim his lis sons son's body had agreed to permit the he double funeral and joint burial if Mrs Parker did not object Clyde was the second son killed by police A year car ago Buck Duck was wounded wound wound- ed d fatally in a fight with officers near Dexter Iowa Clyde escaped then Desperadoes Come Home DALT DALLAS AS Texas May 24 UP UP- UP Clyde Barrow and his sweetheart BonnIe Parker who combined their talent alent for crime and ran up a tally of a dozen dOlen murders in the southwest came back home to Dallas today to tobe tobe tobe be burled in different graves The bodies arrived here shortly af at ter cr 9 a. a m. m They were brought in indifferent indifferent different ambulances from Arcadia La la and placed in different funeral funera homes lomes |