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yP);heen-to)00DALLAS, Feb^26-^(1JP)^%^; tences- for 20 defendants cbnyicted-of harboring Clyde^/Barrow. arid • Bonnie' Barker were announced 'in federal court here today /shortly after - a jury returned; Us’ -. verdict. .The sentences . ranged from : an*.horn* in jail to ’twp years, in ..the federal penitentiary, - .Mrs; Cumie .Barrow,* mother, of. Clyde; Mrs. Emma Parker, mother.of Bonnie/and. Mrs; Steve-Davis,-. ■ ■. ■« .mother of Raymond Hamilton, condemned ..fugitive,: were ,given’ sen-tcnees of 30 days each in jail;.:, ‘ Floyd Hamilton, 26, eld erN brother of Raymond, was given] a two-year sentence in. Leavenworth jpeniteri-.. tiary.Billie Mace Gets IYear.;1 Mrs, Billie. Mace,, sister of Bom*', nie, was assessed a sentence of a year and a day \ri federal prison at Alderson, W. Va.Mrs, Blanche Barrow, widow , of Buck, brother of Clyde, killed by j officers at Dexter, Iowa, was given j a sentence of a yem^and a day, to J run concurrently' with her one to j ten year sentence being served in Missouri for assault ±o murder.Marie Francis, 16,. sister of Clyde; was ordered by Judge W, H;t ^ ™Atwell to spend one ^iour in jail;'.] Audrey Fay Barrow, 16,. wife of L,. C., Clyde’s young. brother, was given a sentence of i5 days in jail.Mrs. Mildred. Hamilton, 21, wife of Floyd and mother of two small children was ordered to serve only one hour in jail. ' m ■ 'Steve Davis, 34; step-father, of Raymond Hamilton, - wras given 90 days in jail. '• ' \:ledlt;y:ed,heht.caltesm-ia-;he:hefliesheisn’tei-ndbyset1a-toCO.in-►rkrillnesin-izep-lesNot ConcurrentL. C. Barrow', ^Clyde’s younger• *brother, was given a . sentence of• . •13 months,, which ;.the court ordered should not'be concurrent with -afive-year sentence-for. robbery now.on appeal from a state court,*Mary O’Dare, former sweetheart of the fugitive Raymond Hamilton, was given a sentence of a year and a day in .the Alderson, W* Va., prison. Her father, Joe Chambless, was given a 60-day jail sentence. ’ .Joe Francis, 20, husband ..of Marie Francis, was given a 60-day: jail sentence..James Mullen, 45, who has spent. 20 * years in various penitentiaries and who was attacked by another of the defendants after he testified for the governriient in the case, was given a sentence of four months, to be spent in the jail at TVaxahachie.U. S. District. Attorney Clyde Eastus recommended that Mullen be sent to;. Waxahachie,. asserting, belief that. Mullen’s life would he in danger ;in a jail where other de-fendants in the case were held...,S. J. (Badly) }Vhately,. already by serving a one year sentence at Leavenworth, and who attacked Mullen, was given a year and.a day sentence which the court directed should not be concurrent with the other.John. Basden, pardoned a few months ago from the penitentiary, where he had started serving a five year sentence for his confessed pari in robibng the bank at Grand Prairie, was given a sentence of a year and a day in Leavemvorth penitentiary.Henry Methvjn; who reputedly put Clyde and Bphnie “on the spot” when he tipped.officers on the hide out in Louisiana where they wero killed last May. was given a sentence of 15 months in Leavenworth, the sentence to run concurrently with any other sentence he may receive.Methvin will be tried'March 15 in Oklahoma on a charge of murder for killing an officer. He escaped from the Eastman prison farm in South Texas a year ago, when Hamilton and several others fled under, the protecting machine gun fire of Clyde Barrow. At that time ht*. was serving a 10-year sentence. IvYu* his part in aiding officers afterward, the stale agreed to “forget” about the remainder of 'his sentence in that case,W. D. Jones, 19, a member of the * party that escaped with Methvin and Hamilton from the Eastham farm, and who already is serving a one-year jail sentence, was given a sentence of two years, to be concurrent with the remainder of his present term,W. Hilton Bybee. 24, also one of the party that escaped from the Eastham prison farm with Clyde’s help, and who now is serving a life sentence for murder, was given a 90-day sentence, to be concurrent. He once was under death sentence aV Paducah. Tex.Five of the defendants aLeady had pleaded guilty were Joe Francis, Blanche Barrow, Mary O’Dare, John Basden and James Mullen.The 15 others sentenced today •were convicted by the jury.Two others, among 23 indicated, Lillian McBride and Beulah Pray-tor,. were discharged when the case first opened, for lack of evidence* Raymond Hamilton is the only defendant missing.S:(A..Megu:oldsaiedstsdeiOcHitpe*foichsinj2an«yescordec00,izehe*roIjV ate iesWerrlegGr.NetieduinTe:ispfwaoil:efrs~htilllilyataledr-rhtsit.a5)ri-nec-ess-tylyV-pital in Temple. He spent a rest-n i - I -1 . .... nlftC- I
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Mexia Weekly Herald
Mexia, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 01, 1935
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