The Washington times., 1934-05-23
BY THOMAS r. CULLEN
International News Service Staff
COrreSpOndent

Correspondent
NEW YORK, May % QN.S0
With a hail of lead, America to-
day brought q swift end to the
vicious career of Clyde Barrow,
Oklahoma gunman, and his cigar
smoking, -toting companion
terrors Of the Southwest.
For the last two years the
Federal Government, cooperating
with State officials, has been
waging an intensive war against
the country'S southwestern out
laws, combing the deserts and
hills Of the region in search for
Barrow and his kind.
He was among the suspects in
the Kansas City massacre Of last
June II, when a gang Of ma
chine-gmners blasted their way
into the Union Station in an at
tempt to free Frank Nash, no
torious desperate.
4 Killed, 2 wounded
This shooting cost the lives Of
Nash himself, a Department OF
Justice agent and two Kansas
City detectives, and two others
were wounded.
Long before this, the authori-
ties had launched their search
for Barrow. He was believed to
have participated in number
Of daring bank robberieS in
Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and
elsewhere in the southwest as an
associate of Charles pretty Boy"
Floyd, one of the worst OF the
nations bad men, who is still
At large.
The Federal Governments in
terest in Barrow was due tech
nically to the fact he had long
been active in stealing automo-
biles and using them in his
bank robberies.
Underlying this, however, was
the determined campaign being
Waged by the Government to
wipe out, at all costs, the danger"
Gus, coId-blooded gangs rowing
over the southwestern part Of
the country, stealing and murder
ing in cold blood.
Regarded q "Dillinger"
Barrow had long been regarded
as the "Dillinger" Of his own
bailiwick. He had been accused
of kidnapings and murders as
well as bank robberieS, and was
credited with the killing Of many
law officers. During the past
few months, on frequent occas-
ions he has been reported located,
but always succeeded in shooting
his way out Of the traps laid
for him.
Bonnie Parker was a fitting
mate for the rough, tough des-
perado by whose side she lived,
fought and died. She was a first
class gun mol. She could use a
machine-gun and an automatic
revolver as well as BarroW-and
proved herself a dead shot on
more than one occasion.
In addition, she had the cold
blooded brutality which enabled
her to shoot without the flicker
of an eyelid-to pour bullets with
the same facility she poured corn
whisky out Of a jug and drank
it straight.
Smoked Black Cigars
Bonnie met Barrow in Dallas
four years ago. At that time
she was serving them off the
arm" in a local restaurant. Then,
as until today, she smoked black
cigars and wrote bad poetry, but
no one had ever heard Of her.
Though only Is, she had already
been married, and in jail and out
of it, and Barrow didn't take
long to make up his mind she was
the companion for him.
From this point on, the pair
were always together in their ca
reer of crime. Bonnie was proud
of her career and wrote a poem
about it, which she called "Sui-
eide Sal" She thrilled, without a
doubt, when other outlaws picked
up in her territory, told officials
how Bonnie and Barrow had been
run out of the Cookson Hills Of
Oklahoma because they we're ''too
hot" for the slightly more law
abiding residents.