After this event, the massive negative publicity, against Parker in particular, accelerated the public clamor for the extermination of the remaining elements of the Barrow Gang. Scheiffer’s ever-changing story was soon discredited, but not in time for Barrow and Parker. However further witnesses claimed they saw a tall man firing shots into a body on the ground. Schieffer stated that Bonnie stood over the body of an officer, finishing him off by rolling him over and firing into his chest. This graphic account, coupled with recent photos found of the couple showing off their gun collection, encouraged press reports to hound them as gun toting vigilantes and especially tarred Bonnie as the heartless ‘moll’. It was this event that apparently turned the tide against the couple, fuelled by Scheiffer’s account, which got widespread coverage in the press. William Schieffer was that witness and in this newsreel he describes the shooting.
Sadly, for Officer Murphy, it was his first and last day on motorcycle duty. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, that were shot down on a country road and witnessed by a farmer who lived nearby, in April of the same year. Two of these policemen were motorcycle police, H. They were being hunted in the aftermath of the murder of three policemen. On May 23, 1934, police ambushed, shot and killed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, ending their crime spree.īonnie's husband, Roy Thornton, was shot and killed during an attempted prison escape at Eastham Prison on October 3, 1937.The feature video on the MIRC website for this week is presented on the anniversary of the day that the wanted outlaws, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, were killed in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Buck and his wife were shot and killed in the firefight that followed. The Barrow Gang was spotted at an abandoned amusement park near Dexter, IA. The Barrow Gang, at the insistence of Clyde, tried to hide out for some time to allow her to heal. Later in March, the Barrow Gang was joined by Clyde's brother, Buck, following his release from prison.Ī car accident in June 1933 severely injured Bonnie Parker, causing third degree burns on her leg. This was the fifth killing since April.īonnie's husband, Roy Thornton, was arrested in March 1933. Less than two weeks later, Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis was killed by Clyde Barrow. In December 1932, Doyle Johnson was killed as the Barrow Gang stole his car. There was $60.00 in the shopkeeper's till. This was the first of a number of law officer killings.īonnie and Clyde killed a shopkeeper during a robbery in Hillsboro, Tx in October 1932. They opened fire on the law men, killing one police deputy. On August 5, 1932, Clyde Barrow and others in the Barrow Gang were caught drinking in Oklahoma. In June 1932, the jury failed to indict Bonnie and she was released from prison. His wife identified Clyde Barrow as the shooter. Barrow was also involved in the robbery, but was not arrested at this time.ĭuring a shop robbery in Hillsboro, TX, a shopkeeper was shot and killed. The two separated by January of the following year, but never divorced.īy April 1932, Bonnie Parker was arrested in a failed robbery attempt in Texas. She was a good student as a young woman.Ī week before she turned 16, Bonnie Parker married Roy Thornton. Her father was a bricklayer, but the family was thrown into poverty after his death when she was four. He was first arrested in 1926, after failing to return a rental car.īonnie Parker was born in Rowena, Texas. Clyde Barrow was born the fifth of seven children to a poor Texas farming family.
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