You know, Bessemer steel, like gun barrels are made of. We just shot the devil out of them, that’s all. “I can tell you what happened this morning. Hamer said he had been employed as a law officer to make the search but declined to say what agency employed him, “because there’s some other tough-shooting fellows I may be hired to go after.” after moving about half a block from the point where Deputy Oakley opened fire went into the embankment, but was not seriously damaged except one wheel, which had been shot purposely, and the body of the car, which was peppered with missiles from the officers’ guns.Įx-Ranger tells how he ran down Clyde BarrowĪ Post-Dispatch reporter who talked with Frank Hamer, former Captain of the Texas Rangers, by long-distance telephone at Arcadia, La., this afternoon, was informed by Hamar that he had been searching for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the outlaw’s gun-toting woman companion, for the last six months. He used a shotgun loaded with buckshot, and he fired quickly after ordering Barrow to stop, which warning Barrow ignored.īarrow opened a door of the ear evidently to fire a sawed-off shotgun which he held in one hand, but Deputy Oakley and the five other officers who immediately joined in the shooting were too quick.īarrow’s car. These trucks served as an extra shield against discovery by Barrow and his companion, who were first fired upon by Deputy Sheriff Oakley. There were two trucks on the Castor-Gibsland road, going in opposite directions, according to a correspondent of the Shreveport Journal. The officers were concealed in high grass over a distance of about half a block when they sighted Barrow’s car approaching the hill. Barrow’s car broke over the horizon at a high speed. With the posse hiding in brush along the paved highway. They followed the car to Bienville Parish, where the Rangers were joined by Sheriff Henderson Jordan and a staff of deputies. The robbers’ trail was picked up this morning by Hamer and three Texas Ranger associates in Bossier Parish, where Barrow was reported to have relatives residing. After that, they adopted a policy of “sitting and waiting.” Several weeks ago, they barely missed the pair at the rendezvous. had been scouting the Black Lake hideout two months. Hamer had learned of the highways frequented by the pair, and with Gault. Hamer was recently commissioned as a highway patrolman by the State of Louisiana for the special purpose of getting his man - and, in this case, his gunwoman. Gault, a highway patrolman, and Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn, Dallas County Sheriffs. The trap was arranged by Frank Hamer, a former Texas Ranger B. The real Bonnie & Clyde killed: Work of former Ranger Barrow’s body was twisted behind the steering wheel, a revolver gripped in one hand. The woman was almost doubled over the machine gun she had held in her lap. In the wreckage, the officers who had set the trap found both bodies riddled with bullets. The car careened into an embankment and was wrecked. 1 outlaw, and his gunwoman companion, Bonnie Parker, were trapped and shot dead by Texas and Louisiana officers near here today.ĭisregarding a command to halt and unable to get their weapons into play, the desperado and his cigar-smoking companion crumpled up in the front seat of a speeding car. Pair are riddled with bullets on highway near Black Lake before their machine runs into embankmentįormer ranger directs pursuit and attack - fugitives, weapons in their hands, unable to fire a shotīlack Lake, Louisiana – Clyde Barrow, the Southwest’s No. Texas officers trap and kill Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker Outlaw’s auto runs into ambush in Louisiana
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