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Rex for feral aday rail-cur-ost-hest, llets, ital. 1 to thetrou-sser’sivingiters.*1»cu\nton,IsherJohnthatppeal?ealff flLSpre-rdict.nksndell 1 into wned uuild-I Mrs. Ifeless t the51 c feral weeks ago they barely misea the outlaw and his companion in this same section.I Since then, the officers had been “sitting and waiting.”Barrow, whose custom was to | shoot on the drop of a hat and to| escape in high-powered automobiles, I was wanted in several states for I charges ranging from small thefts to murder. He was accused of kill-ing a dozen men. most of them officers.Bonnie Parker, wife of Roy I Thornton, a Texas coimct, was charged by officers with having taken an active part in most of Barrows recent crimes. She, too, was known as vain and boastful, i Several times she was photographed with her belt weighted down with pistols.The couple’s life became more and more harried of late as the law gradually closed in around them. Darting out of an isolated retreat at midnight, they would drive at furious speed to some other rendezvous—sometimes several hundred miles away. Resting only a few hours, they would dash on again.Bonnie Parker was with Barrow and his brother, Marvin, when a posse cornered the gang near Defter, Iowa. June 24. 1933. Marvin was killed but Clyde and Bonnie Parker escaped.Both Barrow and the woman were instantly killed, Barrow being shot through the left temple and 'through the left shoulder. The I Parker woman was shot through the mouth, her teeth being knocked out and through the neck. The fingers of her right hand were shot off.The bandits were WUed on whatW*iUCAU, aiiiru m UUVuaiaiici wtvu v/aj sawBarrow, 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 no change of expression.After she came downstairs from seeing Billie, who is charged with murdering two highway patrolmen near Grapevine April 1, Mrs. Parker told reporters that “I'm not worried about Billie. I know she didn’tdo it. and I am going to help herall I can.”Billie is Mrs. Billie Mace, 21. who is alleged to have shot two state highway patrolmen, E. B. Wheeler and H. D. Murphy, to death as they approached a parked car on motorcycles that Hester Sunday. Floyd Hamilton, 25, who went to school with Billie in the days before Bonnie met Clyde, also is charged, and is in jail at Crockett.Billie says she can prove an alibi, that she was with her mother at their Oak Cliff home Easter Sunday. William Schtefer, a farmer who saw the Easter slayings from a short distance, has Identified her and Hamilton. Billie says he does not know what he is talking about.“Why, he claims that the girl he saw at the parked car was playing with a dog a lot,” she said. “I have^ always hated dogs and never would, get near one. All this is a mistake, and it will bt p«wed.iter, Iowa, wnere tne earrows wun Bonnie and Blanche fled after participating in a shooting affair withofficers 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 to 10 years’ imprisonment for her part in the Platte City episolt;5e. Clyde and Bonnie escaped.“I’m glad it’s all over,” she added. “It is much better that they were both kil.ed, rather than to have been takan alive.”• * •Widow of Slain Officer Thankful Pair DeadSee DEATH TEA^ Pa** 8, ColFOREST CONSERVATIONHy Th* Aiiocitted PrewWASHINGTON, May 23.—Tnelumber code authority today gave final sanction to the forestry conservation practices, which will become effective June 1 under the\ lumber code. .By Th* Awociat*4 PmmAUSTIN, May 23.—“Thank God,* sighed Mrs. E. B. Wheeler, widow of one of the highway patrolmen siain at Grapevine Easter Sunday, when news was received today that Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker had been killed.Mrs. Wheeler is employed In the state patiol offices here.She was given the place by L. G. Phares, chief of the patrol, after Wheeler and a companion officer, H. D. Murphy were shot from their motorcycles by a couple believed to be Clyde and Bonnie.• • •Husband of Bonnie Glad She Wasn’t Caughtfljr Th* Aitwrittd Prt*nHOUSTON. May 23.-Roy Thornton, 25, convict husband of Bonnie Parker, wily gun woman, who was slain with her consort Clyde Barrow, near Arcadia, La., today.i See SIDELIGHTS Page 8 Cot 4
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Abilene Morning News
Abilene, Texas, US
Thu, May 24, 1934
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