Evening star., 1934-05-23
Rangers Guns Riddle Pair
as They Reach for Arms
in Vehicle Travelling at
85-MiIe Rate.
LEAD POURED INTO PAIR
AFTER CRASH STOPS CAR
Bonnie Parker Dies With Machine
Gun in Lap, While Vests No.
/ Desperate Clutches Revolver.
Dozen Killings Laid to Grim
inal in Two Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ARCADIA. La, May 23.-Clyde
Barrow and his gunwoman companion,
Bonnie Parker, were beaten to the
trigger pull by Texas and Louisiana
officers today.
Their crime career ended in blaze
of riot gun fire when, disregarding a
command to halt and unable to get
their weapons into play, the desperate
and his cigar-smoking girl crumpled
up in the front seat of car travelling
at about IS miles an hour.
The car careened into an embank-
ment and was wrecked.
In the wreckage, the officers who
had set the trap for the Southwest's S
public enemy No. l and the Parker
woman found both bodies riddled with
bullets. Bonnie's was almost doubled
over the machine gun she had held in
her lap. Barrow's broken body was
twisted behind the steering wheel, a
revolver gripped in one hand.
Car Heavily Armed.
The car, splintered by gunfre,
proved to be speeding arsenal.
The trap was sprung by Frank
Hamer, a former Texas Ranger; B..
M. Gault, a highway patrolman. and
Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn, Dallas
County sheriffs. Hamer was recently
commissioned as a highway patrol
man for the special purpose of get
ting his man-and, in this case, his
gunwoman.
Hamer had learned of the highways
frequented by the pair and had been
watching for weeks.
Hamer and Gault had been watch
ing the Black Lake hide-out two
months.
Adopted Waiting Policy.
Several weeks ago they barely
missed the couple at the rendezvous.
After that they adopted a policy of
sitting and waiting
The bandits trail was picked up this
morning by Hamer and three Texas
Ranger associates in Bossier Parish
where Barrow was reported to have
relatives. They followed the bandit
car to Bienville Parish, where the
Rangers were joined by Sheriff Hen
derson Jordon and a staff of deputies.
The officers got ahead of the bandit
car and lay in wait until Barrow ran
his car into the ambush.
With the posse, heavily armed, hid
ing in brush along the paved high
way, Barrow's car broke over the
horizon racing at IS miles an hour.
AS the car approached an officer
yelled, Haiti"
Dozen Guns Flame.
Barrow and the woman answered
by reaching for their guns and they
we're met by fusillade from dozen
guns.
The automobile smashed into an
embankment and the officers con-
tinued to fire until the bodies were
riddled.
Barrow and his companion had led
officers in a wild chase over half a
dozen States. Frequently they were
cornered but eluded their pursuers or
shot it out. They replenished their
funds by robbing banks and business
houses.
Barrow was regarded as one of the
Nations most dangerous killers, shoot
ing at the bat of an eye and fleeing
In fast automobiles.
Woman Expert With Gun.
Bonnie Parker was charged by Of
ficers with participation in most of
Barrow's later crimes. Officers said
she was as quick on the trigger as her
associate and was just as elusive.
The bodies we're being taken to Ar
cadia, La, II miles east of the scene
of the killings.
The shooting occurred about miles
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