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m!n-e-I“Civde and Bonnie did not get to nre a snot, .nr.r — -n»n, and ammunition but they did not get * la the wrecked car were threea dozen pistol* and large quantities* of ammunition, beside* Bonnieist jd-1enm,Je.ofhe,n-istledParker’* machine gun. The bodies were left temporarily In the automobile awaiting the coroner’s ar-NO DOUBLE FUNERALOUTLAWSiimy juaw uiuvc 1 uw ***^_place and we shot the devil out * them. Both of them* died with their suns in their haijbs, but they did not have a chancy to use them. We got them as thiy drove intotheir hide-out* ?rival.ic-it-coheton-•e-«-setrdndp-m-ofoftterherckslingTiesloselagoress.exforralflirts.Other* in Poss?With Hamer and Hinton in th ambush near here were B. M. Oault, Texas highway patrolman; Deputy Sheriff Bob Alcorn of Dallas county. Texas, and Louisiana officers.Sheriff Jordan of Bienville parish said he had received a tip that the First National bank of Arcadia was to be robbed on Wednesday or Thursday and immediately had notified Texas' officers.Barrow came from Benton, La.,yesterday afternoon and passedthrough Gibsland, La., about 4 o’clock and again this morning, Jordan said. Jordan and his deputy,Paul M. Oakley, were waiting at the top of the hill with the Texans. In Dallas, Mrs. Henry Barrow,mother of Barrow, cried in anguish•‘And I prayed only last nigh she sobbed, “that I might see him alive just ones mwc.Barrow’s father, working at his filling station, west of Dallas, made only one remark. He said he guessed his wife would be going toLouisiana.Bonnie's Mother faint*Bonnie Parker’s mother, Mrs.Emma Parker, also a resident ofDallas, fainted when informed bytelephone of her daughter's death.Bit by bit, Hamer, one of the best known peace officers in Texas. and his aides had pieced together a map of the highways Barrow ‘ was in the habit of using. Several weeks ago they barely missed I the outlaw and his companion inthis ®me section.I Since then, the officers had been‘ sitting and waiting.’’Barrow, whose custom was toshoot on the drop of a hat and toescape m high-powered automobiles,was wanted in several states for ! charges ranging from small thefts [r murder. He was accused of kin*By Tttp rr**mDALLAS, May 23.—There wil. be no double funeral service* for Clyde Barrow and his roving woman companion, when their bodies are returned herefor burial.Mrs. Henry Barrow, grief-stricken mother of Texas’worst modern bad man, said tonight that she objected to joint funeral services and wanted separate services for her boy.The Rev. Clifford Andrews,pastor of the Oak Cliff full gospel church, wih officiate at bothserviced.tMother and Sister Cry“Who did the shooting?’* askedPhares.“All of us,” Hamer replied?Hamer! 50 years old and aix feet, three inches tall, has been one of the most outstanding peace officers in Texas In recent years.He learned to shoot when a lad and. like other youngsters, had an ambition to become a member of the state’s ranger force, for years one of the most-feared organizations in Texas. He served as a ranger intermittently for 30 yeart but left the force finally with the advent of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, who began her second term as governor in January, 1933.His statement that “we shot the devil” out of Clyde and Bonnie was characteristic.in County JailEasiest Way Out, SaysPenBv Th# Pfh«FORT WORTH, May 23.—Bonnie Parker’s mother and sister cried ina county jail cell here this afternoon because Bonnie’s life ended like it did and because Billie is un-ider murder charges and personsheld for that are not usually permitted to go to funerals.Bonnie’s mother, Mrs. Emma Parker, 47, came from Dallas not long after she had fainted when some one called her on the telephone to tell her that Bonnie lay dead, killed in Louisiana with Clyde Barrow, desperado.The reaction was something like a nervous breakdown, but at the county Jail Mrs. Parker was more dazed than anything else. She talked in a voice that had no life to it, and her face showed nochange of expression.After she came downstairs from seeing Billie, who is charged withBy The IwHitM Pr***JEFFERSON CITY, May 33.—“Xam glad they were both killed; It was the easiest way out.”That was the first comment made here today by Blanche Barrow, auburn-haired inmate of the Missouri state prison farm for women when informed her brother-in-law, Clyde Barrow, and his companion, Bonnie Parker, were killedin Louisiana.Blanche is the widow of Clyde’s brother, Marvin Buck” Barrow, who was killed last July near Dexter, Iowa, where the Barrows with Bonnie and Blanche fled after participating in a shooting affair with officer* at Platte City, Mo.Blanche, who was captured and returned to Missouri, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with intent to kill, and was sentenced to10 years’ imprisonmentBonnie escapedepisode. Clyde
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Abilene Morning News
Abilene, Texas, US
Thu, May 24, 1934
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