Bonnie and Clyde in Oklahoma
Two of the Southwest's more noted desperados during the early 1930's were Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Bonnie and Clyde (or the "Bloody Barrows", as they were then commonly called) terrorized the country, from Texas to Iowa and back, for two years, slaughtering at least a dozen men, most of whom were peace officers. They regularly visited Oklahoma in the course of their depredations.Raised in the slums of West Dallas, Clyde Chestnut Barrow (or Clyde Champion, as he preferred to be called) and Bonnie Parker Thornton apparently met in early 1930. He was the son of a former sharecropper who now ran a gas station in West Dallas. Both Clyde and his older brother, Buck, then in Huntsville Prison, had been arrested several times for burglary and car theft. Bonnie, as yet, had no record, but did have a husband, Roy Thornton, who was doing 99 years at Huntsville as an habitual criminal. She briefly found solace with Clyde Barrow but their budding romance was interrupted by police, who hauled Barrow off to Waco, where he was wanted for a series of burglaries and car thefts.Clyde pleaded guilty to two burglaries and five car thefts and was sentenced to two years, with 12 years prob
Atoka County lawmen and citizens scoured the countryside, looking for the murderers. He and Blanche, over the latter's protests, soon left Dallas to join Bonnie and Clyde. Boyd was also struck, though not seriously, and taken hostage by the gang. Nevertheless, he was paroled, on February 2, 1932. On February 19, the Barrow Gang robbed a national Guard armory at Ranger, Texas. Clyde and Bonnie dropped out of the limelight for a time but surfaced again in Texas. Caldwell, of Goodwater, Blanche had no criminal record and was unaware at the time of their marriage that Buck was an escaped con. Julian Field, containing his medical supplies. The three were soon returned to Texas in chains, accompanied by Sheriff Leslie Stegall of Waco. He would insist later to have been a captive of Clyde and Bonnie. Lee Simmons, head of the Texas Prison System, was so enraged over the killing of one of his guards, that he persuaded Frank Hamer, a legendary ex-Texas Ranger, to come out of retirement and track down Bonnie and Clyde.
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