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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, MAT 24, 1934 PAGE 3A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MILLER Iff GIRL GO BONNIE GOOD JUDGE FAR1S REJECTS "Bonnie and Clyde" at Play and Bullet-Riddled Automobile in Which They Died "GOOD FAMILY" PLEA WRONG, MOTHER SAYS All, Right Until She Fell in In. Sentencing Youth to Two Years He Comments on Request for Leniency. Love With Lawless Youth, Widow Asserts.

HIS 7253 TO 39 IS HONEST VOTE fourth Ward Democratic Leader Challenges Republican Critics to Open Ballot Boxes. Special to the Post-Dispatch. DALLAS, May 24. Bonnie I Parker still was a loved daughter today to her mother. Mrs.

Emma Parker, 47-year-old Dallas widow I To her, Bonnie was a good girl, who Federal Judge Faris said today that he was much more inclined to extend leniency to "the boy brought up from the gutter" than to one from "a good family," when he sentenced Robert E. Rogers, 24 years old, of Lowell, to two years in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, for transportation of a stolen automobile. Counsel for Rogers said that he had made an investigation and found that Rogers came from a good family, that his family was interested in him, and that if he made the mistake of falling in love with a lawless youth, and who was jilVER WARDS CAST carried so far by him that she STRAIGHT BALLOT couldn't turn back. After Clyde Barrow's release from prison he came to the Parker home Poor People There Thought and promised to go straight, she said. When Bonnie left with him, were shown leniency he would back to his home and reform.

Judge Faris replied: "I don't her mother said, she believed the girl never "dreamed of" getting into trouble. Bonds Would Create Jobs and That's All There Was to It. take much stock i a plea that a boy comes from a good family. My "I didn't see her again for a sympathies go to thi boy brought year, Mrs. raricer related, -men he was getting deeper and deeper up from the gutter.

He has a tough time of it. And when he 'STORY OF BONNIE The strictly regimented vote of Justice 01 trie x-catc i ij-iiiiijr slips he may deserve clemency. A boy from a good family, however, who has had greater opportunities, owes himself and his family some consideration. The French have a into trouble, and of course that involved her. She wrote me time and again and 'said: "Mother, I'd give anything in the world if I could come home but I can't.

I've gone too fat. I'd be glad to live on bread and water the rest of my life if I could come home and be like I always AND CLYDE' IN VERSE Ex-Ranger's Own Story Of Killing Clyde Barrow No Regrets for Shooting Bonnie Parker When He Recalled She Had Slain Officers. word for it, "Noblesse Others sentenced today by Judge Stanzas Attributed to Outlaw Faris on their pleas of guilty were: Joseph Bauer, 28-year-old ex-convict, to three years and six months 'But they were too hot' then. 4 itt's Fourth Ward in the bond-issue election of May 15 may be a political man-el and an evidence of sharp machine practices to Republican leaders, but it is all very simple for the blue-eyed Democratic boss of the ward. Miller, discussing the vote today with a Post-Dispatch reporter, challenged Republican leaders to open the ballot boxes, question the voters or do anything else that was legal study the phenomenon by which in Leavenworth, for theft of the She didn't kill anybody or hurt anybody, but she couldn't come home.

knew she couldn't. Barrow's Companion Killed With Him. mails and forgery; Raymond Mont QNAPSHOT of CLYDE BARROW and BONNIE PARKER having fun with a sawed-off shotgun along a southwestern highway. At light, close-up of the upper structure of their automobile after they were killed. "They had to keep traveling, and they'd be traveling yet if it hadn't Bpeciat to the Post-Dispatch.

been for that dirty do'-ble-crosser Special to the Post-Dispatch. ARCADIA, May 24. "I hated to shoot a woman but as I looked DALLAS, May 24. Bonnie tLat put them on the spot to be station to get their tires fixed. After they were fixed, Clyde stuck a pistol into the attendant's ribs and Bonnie walked into the filling station store and got the cash box.

Parker's life with Clyde Barrow 1 shot ur like that. prompted her to poetry. Here, ac "What do you think of a bunch his ward voted 7253 or 7255 for, and cording to a Texas newspaper, are of men that would shoot them up down my rifle barrel I remembered that Bonnie Parker had taken part in the murder of nine peace officers. When she came out She was puffing several verses of a long poem found 39 or 37 against, most of the bond- ssue proposals. I among her effects entitled "The gomery, ex-convict, to a year and a day in Leavenworth, for transportation of a stolen automobile from Madison, 111., to St.

Louis; and Jessie Moore, 1621 South Second street, to three years in the Federal Reform "tory for Women at Alderson, W. on a charge of sending poison through the mails. Louis Himinez, named in the indictment with Jessie Moore, pleaded not guilty. The Court appointed an attorney and will fix a trial date later. The two were charged with sending marijuana, a Mexican weed, which, when smoked produces intoxication, through the mails.

Story of Bonnie and Clyde" like that? Shot them from ambush, that's what they did. Didn give them a chance. They got a signal when to start shooting and didn't even try to take them alive. on a big black cigar, the attendant said." Ahead of Schedule. Hamer and his fellow officers "I remembered how she kicked jl'n of the Republican City Com- You have read the story of Jesse the body of a highway patrolman at Grapevine, Easter Sunday, and fired a bullet into his body as ormative if nothing else.

Miller "Of course she knew she would it had expected the Barrow car yesterday morning at exactly 9:27 James, Of how he lived and died. aid. "If he means that the Fourth Ward is Democratic, and he lay on the ground. be killed. She knew they wouldn't last long.

But there was nothing o'clock. It came at 9:15 o'clock. If you still are in need of some "Bonnie just got into the way of hat it is going that way in the Hamer got a "tip" at his hotel thing to read. else to do but keep driving all- of the time." November election, I guess he's Here's the story of Bonnie and bullets intended for Clyde Barrow. A woman like that had something like that coming to her." Johnson at Temple, Tex.

Jan. 7, 1933 Killing of Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis ir Dallas. April 13, 1933 Killing of Constable J. W. Harryman and Detective Harry McGinnis at Joplin, Mo.

June 23, 1933 Killing of Marshal Henry Humphrey at Van Buren, Ark. Jan. 16, 1934 Killing of Maj. Crowson, guard at the State Prison Farm near Huntsville, Tex. April 1, 1934 Killing of E.

B. Wheeler and H. D. Murphy, Texas highway patrolmen, near Grapevine, Tex. April 6, 1934 Killing of Constable Cal Campbell at Miami, OX.

Barrow and Bonnie Parker were indicted for the killing of the two Texas highway patrolmen Easter Sunday. The patrolmen, dismounting from their motorcycles to investigate an automobile parked by the roadside, were shot at close range before they could draw their pistols. A few days ago Bonnie Parker's sister, Mrs. Billie Mace, and here Monday night that all was set. The plans had been made beforehand.

The six officers took up their Clyde: -ight But if these Republicans mean that there was irregular work In that manner the taciturn MARTIN INSULL PLEA DENIED up there in my ward, they're just vigil on the little red dirt road Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Bar Frank Hamer, former Texas Rang SUPPOSED FRIEND BETRAYED BARROW FOR $2500 REWARD Continued From Page One. pons were a saxopnone and sheets of music. Sheriffs Story of Killings. Sheriff Henderson Jordan of Bienville Parish, witness of the killings, told of the events leading up to it as follows: "1 had been working on this case about six weeks, when I received a tip Wednesday that Barrow and Bonnie Parker were coming through the lower part of Bienville Parish and going to the northern part of Natchitoches Parish. We began checking up on this.

"I put an undercover man on the job. I stationed him in Shreve-port. On getting a tip that Barrow and Bonnie Parker figured on robbing the First National Bank of Arcadia, I got in touch with ex-Captain Hamer, of the Texas Rangers, and R. F. Alcorn, Dallas County Deputy Sheriff.

I had to get someone who knew Barrow and Bonnie Parker personally in order not to make a mistake in shooting if we about 18 miles southeast of Arcadia. They were on the crest of a slight alking without thinking. "Even Republicans for It." "Figure it out for yourself. Ev- Judge Refuses to Quash Charges; row gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal. Trial Set for July 16.

incline, sheltered by a bit of shrub 1 i. i By the Associated Press. bery. CHICAGO, May 24. Martin In je.

The papers hammered at it Are usually found dying or dead. "About 7:30 o'clock Monday Bombing at Alabama Mine. HENRY ELLEN, May 24. Fire following an explosion of dynamite early today leveled the post-office and the commissary of the Henry Ellen Coal Co. here with a loss estimated at $10,000.

Witnesses said the dynamite was thrown from an automobile that drove by the commissary. The Henry Ellen mine employs approximately 50 miners, all of whom have been on strike for two months. ith editorials and news stories. sull's motion to quash the indict night, Hamer related, "Clyde and ment charging him with embezzle he radio speakers told everybody them as cold-blooded Bonnie passed through Arcadia, They class ment and larceny was overruled to- and drove about a hundred miles. killers.

get out and put it over. Even he Republicans were for it. That iplains why it got a heavy vote They say they are heartless and bV Judge James F. Fardy in Never mind what direction they oupenor Vguru arove. They were looking for a Trial of the charges was set for board along the highway.

They mean, But I say this with pride That I once knew Clyde July 16. "As for my ward, the only thing found the board, but there wasn't Raymond Hamilton's brother, Floyd, sax iurpnsea me was now it) peo- any note under it the information When he was honest and upright also were charged with the killing. and clean. er who has never shot a man without giving him a break, explained why a woman was killed by officers yesterday the woman who was the companion of" the South-west's most notorious desperado. Hamer talked of the case for more than an hour this morning, while the rest of this little Louisiana town, stirred by a drama of nation-wide interest, was asleep.

Trap Laid in February. Hamer broke a rule of years standing to never discuss a case in order to tell how he tracked down Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. He disclosed, among other things, that the trap sprung on May 23 was laid as long as ago as Feb. 19. He told how Barrow communicated with his few intimates in his long career of crime by messages laid beneat boards along the highways.

The big ex-Ranger, who seldom smiles and talks only under the most persistent questioning, con came out to vote against it. he Fourth is a river ward, not a they were expecting hadn't come. "I Gave Them a Chance. West End district. There are not "The information never did come.

They don't think they are too tough any highly educated persons there or desperate, Clyde and Bonnie sat their all night, until the dawn, waiting for lis there are in the Twenty-eighth, i found them. They know the law always wins. for instance, where people go out the messenger, but he didn't come fend split tickets because they want They have been shot at before, But they do not ignore That death was the wages ot sin. jtne candidate indorsed by the or- Then they returned to Arcadia, and started out on the Gibbsland road looking for the second board. They Bonnie Parker's Convict Husband Says He Is Glad.

HOUSTON, May 24. Roy Thornton, 25 years old, convict husband of Bonnie Parker, said he was glad his wife died as she did. "I'm glad hey went out like they did," he said. "It was better than getting caught." Thornton previously said he had not seen his wife since 1931, when he was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Ear.izat.ion and not another.

"The river wards have always found us instead. some people foted straight tickets, and always From heartbreaks have suffered Hi. The voters there belong to 'e party or another and thev vote From weariness some people have Tip Received Tuesday Night. "Tuesday night I received a tip they would be on the Jamestown-Sailes road the next morning. With Capt.

Hamer, Alcorn, Ted Hinton, Dallas Deputy, and P. M. Oakley, one of my Bienville Parish deputies, I drove out the road and picked out a place to wait for them. "We chose a natural barricade at the top of a little hill and hid ourselves on the left-hand side of the road and waited for the car to come by. "Clyde was driving less than 30 miles an hour.

I raised up and commanded them to halt. At the same instant, Clyde reached for his i the organization. The Repub- Uui died, But take it all in all, Their troubles are small firmed the report that Bonnie Park 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun, leaning ans round tnat out last JNovem-r, if they never knew it before, on the 6eat between him and Bon Till they get like Bonnie and Clyde. nie, and Bonnie reached for a 16- en they put watchers our iiir.g places and saw the voters, "ing for Democratic ballots, gauge sawed-off shotgun. to Some day they will go down er was addicted to cigars.

She had written a letter denying that she was the "cigar-smoking moll" that newspapers had pictured her. "We got it from a filling station attendant in Arkansas," he said. "She and Clyde drove into a filling "anting them at the ton. and dron- "1 gave them a chance to halt but they didn't, so we gave 'em the "Alcorn, who personally knew HISS by same meaicine tney ve given so gether. And they will bury them side side.

To a few it means grief, To the law it's relief. many others." them into the box. "This bond issue was probably ore popular in the river wards an in the others, because the peo-e in the river wards are poor. Sister of Bonnie Parker Expected It "to End This Way." By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex May 24.

"I'm not surprised; I have been expecting it to end this way," Mrs. Billie Mace, 21 years old, said when told her sister, Bonnie Parker, had been killed. Mrs. Mace is in jail on murder charges growing out of the killing of two highway patrolmen near Grapevine April 1, a crime for which her sister and Clyde Barrow already had been indicted. alertness and did their job well But it is death to Bonnie and Clyde.

of them are out of iobs and Such quick action can be expected to follow." newspapers and politicians told em the bond issue would bring a Fire Causes $1900 Damage. "A of employment to St. Louis. So Former Official Leaves Prison. By the Associated Press.

ey went, down the line for the Fire starting in a pile of rubbish at2g.ro. today caused $1900 damage to a three-story building at 1800 Lafayette avenue. The first JEFFERSON CITY, May 24. A. hole issue, just as any intelligent E.

Lehman, former treasurer of Cole County, was released from the liticians could have predicted. As to Pap and SchmolL "If the Republicans like Pape or floor is occupied by the pharmacy of Edward Sturgis. Jordon Nelson An Schmoll, the Circuit Clerk. State penitentiary yesterday after having served a three-year term for embezzlement of county funds. He pleaded guilty on Oct.

4, 1932, and and his wife, living on the second floor, discovered the blaze, and escaped without assistance. The that doesn't make sense, let get a court order and open third floor is unoccupied. entered prison two weeks later. f- ballot boxes, instead of hinting they might find something aw- if that was done. "My advice to them, thoueh.

is to KEENAN PRAISES OFFICERS WHO KILLED BARROW, WOMAN Assistant Attorney-General Says "Acclaim of Nation Should Be Accorded Them." By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, May 24. Joseph B. Keenan, assistant United States Attorney-General, who has headed the Federal Government's campaign against gangsters and racketeers, declared here today that the "acclaim of the nation should be accorded to the police officers who brought about the end of the careers" of Clyde Barrow, Southwestern desperado, and his gun-woman companion, Bonnie Parker. "The slaying of Barrow and his girl friend is a fitting argument to claims of opponents of recent legislation designed to aid in halting crime," Keenan said.

"Opponents of this legislation have said new laws which require local authorities to refer all their problems to the Federal Government would cause local officers to neglect their assigned duties. Quite to the contrary, the old-time Texas Ranger and the Louisiana officers who shot down Barrow and Miss Parker displayed outstanding vigilance and F'e all that trouble until Novem-K because when the Republican Muaates are defeated then, they're to put ui a bis- holler. So far Is I am concerned, they can open coxes then, just as they can DISCHARGED CONDUCTOR GETS $3000 VERDICT AGAINST ROAD Suit Based on Alleged Failure of Company to Live Up to Union Contract. A verdict givingg $3000 to D. M.

Reed of Illmo, against the St. Louis-Southwestern Railway was returned yesterday by a jury in Circuit Judge Beck's court. It is based on alleged failure of the railroad to comply with a contract with the Order of Railroad Conductors, of which Reed was a member. regulating procedure in the trial of charges against an employe. Reed was discharged in October, 1928, after a hearing on charges of intoxication, of which he said he was previously informed he had been exonerated.

He alleged that certain provisions in the contract with the union regulating time in which to appeal, as well as other regulations, were not observed in his case. The railroad contended he had been given a hearing as required by the agreement. MRS. JELKE SEEKS DIVORCE "AH they'll learn now Is that the nd issue went over in the Fourth lrd as the figures sav it did. All nnd out in November is that candidates have been defeated iU(; ngures say.

ine fourth Ward hns vntfd the A ECIAL SAL EOF raiRht Democratic ticket for a 8 time. It's wastine time to trv Barrow and Bonnie Parker, sighted their car a quarter of a mile away and told us that was them. When the car got within 100 yards coming up the grade, Alcorn said: 'That's them, "About that time the car, which was meeting a truck, slowed down, we hollered to Barrow to halt, as we wished to give them a chance. They went for their guns and we let them have it. "In the car we found three submachine guns, two automatic sawed-off shotguns, four automatic pistols, two automatic pistols and one revolver; also a large quantity of ammunition." Barrow's Career of Crime, Barrow never was the leader of a large gang, but usually had only two or three followers, among whom were Bonnie Parker, his brother, Buck, and Raymond Hamilton, convicted killer and bank robber now serving sentences totalling 362 years in Texas.

On Jan. 16, 1934, Barrow was alleged to have made a raid on the Texas State Prison Farm near Huntsville, in which Hamilton and four other convicts were liberated after Major Crowson, a guard, was kiUed. During Hamilton's recent trial on a bank robbery charge, authorities received a letter, bearing Barrow's thumbprint for identification deriding Hamilton's statement that Barrow was the desperate member of the gang, while he (Hamilton) merely followed along. Barrow's police record began in 1926, when he was arrested in Dallas for automobile theft. In 1930, he was sentenced to 14 years' Imprisonment for automobile theft at Waco, but was paroled in February, 1932, by Gov.

Sterling. A Trail of Murder. Then started his trail across the Southwest, marked by killings and bank robberies. Barrow said his depredations were due to mistreatment by officers during his first prison terms. The first murder charge against him was based on the killing of J.

N. Bucher, a filling station operator, in a holdup at Hillsboro, April 30, 1932. A series of murders, for which he was indicted, or sought, followed On the list were: Aug. 5, 1932 Murder of Deputy Sheriff E. C.

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