MAY 23 1934
BONNIE & CLYDE
ARE
KILLED IN LOUISIANA
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker, outlaw fugitives, were killed in a police ambush near Sailes,
in NW Louisiana, a good ways east of Shreveport on highway 154 where
it intersects with highway 516, by a contingent of police officers
of Texas and Louisiana, who awaited for them to drive by, then, in a
two minute fusillade of 127 rounds fired at their stolen automobile,
killing both outright.
Bonnie Parker had met the
charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old, and
married at 16 to a husband who was serving jail time for murder.
When Barrow was imprisoned for robbery, Parker visited him
everyday, one time smuggled a hand gun to him, which helped his
escape .
Soon caught in Ohio, return
to jail, paroled in 1932, immediately he and Parker began a life of
crime together. Over the next two years, with various accomplices,
they robbed banks and stores across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri , New
Mexico and Louisiana.
The Barrows Gang, Raymond
Hamilton, W. D. Jones, Henry Melvin, Barrows brother, Buck his
wife Blanch, to law enforcement agents, were cold blooded
criminals, who did not hesitate to kill anyone who was in their way.
They were held responsible for 13 deaths, nine of which were
police officers. However, to a large portion of the American
public, the dangerous outlaw couple were mixed with a romantic view
as “Robin Hood” like folk heroes.
Also most captured in 1933
with surprise raids on hideouts in Joplin and Platte City, Missouri,
where Buck Barrow was killed in one, and Blnch arrested , Bonnie
and Clyde escaped once again.
In early 1943 the killed
another officer and shot more with machine guns while helping
Hamilton escape the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas. The Texas Prison
officials had enough, they hired a retired Texas police officer,
Captain Frank Hamer, a special investigator , who in three months
had trace the couple to Louisiana, a rather remote area near Sailes,
set up an elaborate ambush , and filled the pair with bullets, a
hundred and seventy two of them.
Source: This Day In
History, May 23, 1934 , www.history.com
: Abstract Harrison Howeth, 2017. May 23.
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