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On the Trail of Bonnie & Clyde Then and Now .. [AK 45.256 Book] | ||
 On the Trail of Bonnie & Clyde Then and Now | £29.95
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| 'More fantastic than fiction and more amazing than the history of any desperado of the early west.'
So wrote one newspaper editor of the period when reflecting on the career of America's notorious crime duo - Bonnie and Clyde. To be more accurate we should refer to Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker; for Bonnie met and latched onto Clyde after he had already begun his career in crime. They soon became inseparable lovers yet no gangster's moll ever became as famous as Bonnie Parker. They were a product of the Depression years when a crime-wave, fuelled by Prohibition, gripped the United States of America. The Barrow gang, whose hangers-on changed frequently, lived by robbing banks, stealing cars and holding up both stores and filling stations. Clyde personally participated in ten of the twelve murders of which the gang is accused, and he most probably personally pulled the trigger on seven people. Once Clyde had blood on his hands there was no going back, yet his miraculous escapes from police road-blocks and at least nine pitched gun-battles earned him a reputation of invincibility. Only through the betrayal of a former gang member were he and his lover gunned down in a carefully staged ambush to bring to an end their two-year crime spree. Separating fact from fiction, this is the first publication which revisits the scenes of all their known and proven crimes across 500,000 miles of the American Midwest and Southwest. Presented in After the Battle's usual 'then and now' format, 70 years on we picture the locations of the robberies and shoot-outs . . . and seek out graves of those who died . . . lest their victims be overshadowed and forgotten by the legendary exploits of Bonnie and Clyde. The book's contents include; - An introduction to the Barrow gang. 1929 . . . November 29 - Denton, Texas: Robbery of the Motor Mark Garage - Buck Barrow sentenced to 5 years in the State Penitentiary at Huntsville. Clyde Barrow meets Bonnie Parker. 1930 . . . March 11 - McLennan County Jail, Waco, Texas: Clyde, in prison following robberies in Waco, escapes from jail and travels to Ohio. March 17-18 - Middletown, Ohio: Robberies and wild chase to escape police ends in Clyde's capture. 1931 . . . October 29 - Eastham Camp 1, Weldon, Texas: Clyde in the notorious Texas jail allegedly kills his first victim. 1932 . . . March 25 - Dallas, Texas: Break in at the Simms Oil Refinery. April 18 - Mabank, Texas: Attempted break in and gun-battle - Bonnie captured, imprisoned at Kemp and Kaufman. April 20 - Celina, Texas: Burglary of local stores. April 25 - Lufkin, Texas: Robbery of gas stations. April 30 - Hillsboro, Texas: Robbery and murder of storekeeper John Bucher. July 29 - Grand Prairie, Texas: Robbery of interurban station. August 1 - Dallas, Texas: Robbery of the Neuhoff Packing Company. August 5 - Stringtown, Oklahoma: Murder of Deputy Sheriff Eugene Moore. August 13-14 - Carlsbad, New Mexico: Kidnapping of Sheriff Joe Johns. August 15 - Victoria/Wharton, Texas: Vehicle theft and gun-battle with police. October 11 - Sherman, Texas: Murder of shopkeeper Howard Hall. November 30 - Oronogo, Missouri: Bank hold-up and gun-battle. December 25 - Temple, Texas: Attempted vehicle theft and murder of Doyle Johnson. 1933 . . . January 6 - Dallas, Texas: Murder of Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis. January 26 - Springfield, Missouri: Kidnap of police motorcyclist Tom Persell. March 11 and 18 - Baxter Springs, Kansas: Robbery of local store. March - Marshall, Texas: Theft of Robert Rosborough's car which features in the well-known series of photographs of Bonnie and Clyde and W. D. Jones. March 31-April 13 - Joplin, Missouri: Gun-battle - murder of Detective Harry McGinnis and Constable John Harryman - the photographs recovered by police at Joplin. April 27 - Ruston, Louisiana: Vehicle theft and kidnapping of Dillard Darby and Sophia Stone. May 12 - Lucerne, Indiana: Bank robbery |
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