Monday, May 23, 2011

May 23, 1934 Police Kill Famous Outlaws Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde
Clyde Champion Barrow and his companion, Bonnie Parker, were shot to death by officers in an ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934, after one of the most colorful and spectacular manhunts the nation had seen up to that time.
Barrow was suspected of numerous killings and was wanted for murder, robbery, and state charges of kidnapping.
Clyde Champion Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Champion Barrow

Bonnie Parker

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), then called the Bureau of Investigation, became interested in Barrow and his paramour late in December 1932 through a singular bit of evidence. A Ford automobile, which had been stolen in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, was found abandoned near Jackson, Michigan in September of that year. At Pawhuska, it was learned another Ford car had been abandoned there which had been stolen in Illinois. A search of this car revealed it had been occupied by a man and a woman, indicated by abandoned articles therein. In this car was found a prescription bottle, which led special agents to a drug store in Nacogdoches, Texas, where investigation disclosed the woman for whom the prescription had been filled was Clyde Barrow's aunt.

Further investigation revealed that the woman who obtained the prescription had been visited recently by Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde's brother, L. C. Barrow. It also was learned that these three were driving a Ford car, identified as the one stolen in Illinois. It was further shown that L. C. Barrow had secured the empty prescription bottle from a son of the woman who had originally obtained it.
On May 20, 1933, the United States Commissioner at Dallas, Texas, issued a warrant against Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, charging them with the interstate transportation, from Dallas to Oklahoma, of the automobile stolen in Illinois. The FBI then started its hunt for this elusive pair.







 
Background

Bonnie and ClydeBonnie and Clyde met in Texas in January, 1930. At the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisoned murderer; Clyde was 21 and unmarried. Soon after, he was arrested for a burglary and sent to jail. He escaped, using a gun Bonnie had smuggled to him, was recaptured and was sent back to prison. Clyde was paroled in February 1932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crime.
In addition to the automobile theft charge, Bonnie and Clyde were suspects in other crimes. At the time they were killed in 1934, they were believed to have committed 13 murders and several robberies and burglaries. Barrow, for example, was suspected of murdering two police officers at Joplin, Missouri and kidnapping a man and a woman in rural Louisiana. He released them near Waldo, Texas. Numerous sightings followed, linking this pair with bank robberies and automobile thefts. Clyde allegedly murdered a man at Hillsboro, Texas; committed robberies at Lufkin and Dallas, Texas; murdered one sheriff and wounded another at Stringtown, Oklahoma; kidnaped a deputy at Carlsbad, New Mexico; stole an automobile at Victoria, Texas; attempted to murder a deputy at Wharton, Texas; committed murder and robbery at Abilene and Sherman, Texas; committed murder at Dallas, Texas; abducted a sheriff and the chief of police at Wellington, Texas; and committed murder at Joplin and Columbia, Missouri.















 
The Crime Spree Begins

Later in 1932, Bonnie and Clyde began traveling with Raymond Hamilton, a young gunman. Hamilton left them several months later and was replaced by William Daniel Jones in November 1932.
Ivan M. "Buck" Barrow, brother of Clyde, was released from the Texas State Prison on March 23, 1933, having been granted a full pardon by the governor. He quickly joined Clyde, bringing his wife, Blanche, so the group now numbered five persons. This gang embarked upon a series of bold robberies which made headlines across the country. They escaped capture in various encounters with the law. However, their activities made law enforcement efforts to apprehend them even more intense. During a shootout with police in Iowa on July 29, 1933, Buck Barrow was fatally wounded and Blanche was captured. Jones, who was frequently mistaken for "Pretty Boy" Floyd, was captured in November 1933 in Houston, Texas by the sheriff's office. Bonnie and Clyde went on together.

Bonnie and Clyde's identification order
Bonnie and Clyde's identification order

On November 22, 1933, a trap was set by the Dallas, Texas sheriff and his deputies in an attempt to capture Bonnie and Clyde near Grand Prairie, Texas, but the couple escaped the officer's gunfire. They held up an attorney on the highway and took his car, which they abandoned at Miami, Oklahoma. On December 21, 1933, Bonnie and Clyde held up and robbed a citizen at Shreveport, Louisiana.

On January 16, 1934, five prisoners, including Raymond Hamilton (who was serving sentences totaling more than 200 years), were liberated from the Eastham State Prison Farm at Waldo, Texas by Clyde Barrow, accompanied by Bonnie Parker. Two guards were shot by the escaping prisoners with automatic pistols, which had been previously concealed in a ditch by Barrow. As the prisoners ran, Barrow covered their retreat with bursts of machine-gun fire. Among the escapees was Henry Methvin of Louisiana.







 
The Last Months

On April 1, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde encountered two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas. Before the officers could draw their guns, they were shot. On April 6, 1934, a constable at Miami, Oklahoma fell mortally wounded by Bonnie and Clyde, who also abducted a police chief, whom they wounded.
The FBI had jurisdiction solely on the charge of transporting a stolen automobile, although the activities of the Bureau agents were vigorous and ceaseless. Every clue was followed. "Wanted notices" furnishing fingerprints, photograph, description, criminal record, and other data were distributed to all officers. The agents followed the trail through many states and into various haunts of the Barrow gang, particularly Louisiana. The association with Henry Methvin and the Methvin family of Louisiana was discovered by FBI agents, and they found that Bonnie and Clyde had been driving a car stolen in New Orleans.
On April 13, 1934, an FBI agent, through investigation in the vicinity of Ruston, Louisiana, obtained information which definitely placed Bonnie and Clyde in a remote section southwest of that community. The home of the Methvins was not far away, and the agent learned of visits there by Bonnie and Clyde. Special agents in Texas had learned that Clyde and his companion had been traveling from Texas to Louisiana, sometimes accompanied by Henry Methvin.
The FBI and local law enforcement authorities in Louisiana and Texas concentrated on apprehending Bonnie and Clyde, whom they strongly believed to be in the area. It was learned that Bonnie and Clyde, with some of the Methvins, had staged a party at Black Lake, Louisiana on the night of May 21, 1934 and were due to return to the area two days later.
Before dawn on May 23, 1934, a posse composed of police officers from Louisiana and Texas, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, concealed themselves in bushes along the highway near Sailes, Louisiana. In the early daylight, Bonnie and Clyde appeared in an automobile and when they attempted to drive away, the officers opened fire. Bonnie and Clyde were killed instantly.

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3 comments:

  1. (castor La)Sallie "Lorraine" Joyner said:across cemetery ,Joyner had house,He got money from Tx State (over 1,ooo) to get old man (ivy) Methvin to stand on the side _ He (joyner) was the hit man behind the ( bonnie clyde ambush) scene. And Joyner built home with money on his land.Joyner bro sold 80 acres (john Joyner) after ww2.Henry Methvin gave Clara pix’s and Clara gave Lorraine pix’s.(afterward John shot clara 1942)((Census 1920: Joyner John - Clara (age 20) Cencus1930: Joyner John 31,Clara 28, Bill (clyde) 10 son, Lane son 7,Shirley “Reginald” son 4.))Clyde (aka Bill)Thurston Joyner 1920-1988 Castor La own mobil gas station,store, Mobil gas station,small motel behing the gas station.(lorraine dad David A Lee castor La 1893-1972.1900 census Lee D.A.1861,wife S.A34,Comie Dau9,CleoSon8,David son7,Annie6,Tom son4.Sallie 1.)also Biencille Louisiana Cole Otis -Odie, Census Thomas: Edgar head 36,Anniewife31,effie12,Allen10,Lucy7,Loyd8/12.)Ivy Methvin got off bus probarbly hit by car hwy71 near Elm grove La.12-21-1948 died 7days later. Methvin”s Castor La :Methvin Willie 21,wife Emma19,child Evanglean age 0.(ivy/Avie,cecil,terril,HenryMethvin) Henry I Methvin :Accident Methvin dob: 8 april1912 d0d:19 april 1948 Witness Mack Thomas said He looked away for a moment when he and (henry)Methvin walked up to the train blocking the crossing.He said said he turn back to see the other man already under the train. Then he yelled to Methvin when he noticed the train had started moving.(. father: Ivie mother Avie (stephens) Methvin spouse Lucile Methvin daughter Lanette Methvin) Lavohn Cole (Neal) dob 30 march 1921 Castor La. Lavohn brother James LeHand Cole.parents: BaileyV and Allie N Cole.Both JamesCole & Lavohn Cole Utube claim Bonnie & Clyde went Gus gas station/store Sailes La.That Ivy Methvin had truck.Clyde bought groceries &gave pop Lavohn her cousin’s &Bonnie walk limp went into Gus Store. Mildred Cole (Lyons)said John Coles abandon cabin best hideout for B-C? Mildred Cole parents Augustus Hugh Cole 1894-1946.father JoesphA Cole1855-1934. brother:John G Cole & Otis G Cole.(each sentence tell how B-C came Castor La deal made to move B-C to Sailes La to abandon cabin for ambush?

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  2. Utube:LavohnCole(Neal)said:We had seen them(B-C)..They had come to Little Store(Gus Cole Store)and She (Bonnie)stay in car.He (clyde)got out bought gas.He bought us orange crush drink 5cents gave my cousin and I .We were up there,old store,he gave us one,we were probarbly barefooted& just kind of playing around.Bonnie was small,think what's call dishwater blond.I don't remenber anything except (she wore) red clothes that's the most i remenber.I remenber Clyde tall Thin wore hat he wore dress shirts a lot.James Cole said: My father (BaileyCole) went up to Gus Cole had a little country store (sailes La) up here,516hwy intersects 153hwy,and my father (BaileyCole) went up there, just before dark,in the evening,and I don't remenber the exact date,is sometime,before they(bonnie clyde )were killed (5-23-1934).and that a man old man Henry (ivy) Methvin,from down from Castor (Louisiana)was there.,Then methvin ask Daddy(BaileyCole )for John Cole house, was vacant?Daddy told him ,"Yes"and they were on it,but we called a pole truck back in those days.....He (baileyCole) said that there was a woman sitting on truck and a man had overalls,a little bitty fellar (clyde)he said,had the keenest black eyes he had ever seen.Standing back up against the door,with his hands,overalls,old man(Ivy)methvin went on inside (Gus Store) Daddy(BaileyCole) went on with him(ivyMethvin).Bailey Vincent Cole (castor) Bienville parish Louisiana Census:1920 V Bailey25,Allie20. Census1940: VinsonB 45,Allie40,Lehane22,Mary13.Census1930:Cole BV35,Allie30,Lehane13,Levohn4,Mary3.

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  3. all remenber John Coles old Cabin in Sailes Co near Gibsland La - B-C Route 154-- was a gravel topped Louisiana Hwy 418. In traveling south about 2 miles past the ambush site on this road, you would arrive at a crossroads often called the Sailes corner.Hwy 154, Gibsland, LA Directions: From Gibsland, drive south 2.5 miles on Hwy 154. Turn right to stay on Hwy 154 (If you go straight you'll be on Hwy 517. If you pass the Springfield Baptist Church you've drive to far?Many Barrow & Parker Relation all claim that Land Deal with House in Sailes La - So who lost out on land deal ? Seems Maybe the Coles Bienville Louisiana gave impression /impression they'd sell the land - House to him (bonnie/Clyde) or Ivy Methvin (avia - Henry Methvin) ? Because the Barrow Family (all relations) all say that Clyde Barrow gave his father Henry Barrow, a legal doc ,to sign for a farm in Louisiana? Even in Blanche Barrow book (later years she became reacqainted with barrow family) she claim that Clyde bought a farm with house so they'd all could come down to visit him (bonnie/clyde) ? Even in ( fugitives story bonnie/clyde with Emma parker/Neil Barrow Cowan) Emma Parker Bonnie Parker's Thornton mom claim that Clyde Barrow told everyone (at meetings) he bought land with house he is fixing up so they all could come down to visit? So did the Authorities tell the Coles : 1. that transation with Outlaws -Bandits is invalid so don't have to honor it so they'd can keep all the money was given them? 2.DId the Coles willing use B-C to trick fool them into a transation paper or (not )that was only to get money because it during depression in order to set B-C up?3.3.That Since Bonnie Clyde died 5-23-34 ,dead the land deal was invalid transaction (for numerous reasons) dont have to honor it (declined - not validated because mistyping insufficent funds Etc ) so the COLES could keep all the MONEY and all MONEY that happend to be on Land (premises) ?

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