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OmER DETAILS OF BARROW DEATH TRAP KILLING ARE PRINTED ON PAGE 8 If Yotv News Not On Porch By 5:15 o'Clock, Call The Office Before 6 o'Clock For Prompt Delivery. Phone 164 or 165. Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service (AND THE DINNER HORN) Complete Regional and Local News Coverage HOME VOL. LXV NO. PARIS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934 EIGHT PAGES ESTABLISHED 1 LEAD ENDS LIVES ARROW AND Murder Case Denouement In Oklahoma Hitch Hiker Admits Brain- ing High Naval Of i cer With Hammer I BOTH WERE BEER, HE DECLARES i Killer Is Arrested Driving Blood- Stained Auto MARIETTA.

Okla. officers were due to arrive here to take etsstody. of Hudgins. 27-year old hizch-luker arid confessed slayer of a. high, naval officer on a.

Kansas highway last SsLturday evening. HudgilJSv a forme? ipssissippi convict, slated in confession ina.de Sheriff 8- Randolph that He Itad ridden, across Oklahoma into Kansas with Lieutenant CotnTna.nder S. J- Trowbridge. U- S- N- and that he had beaten him to death with a itier in a quarrel preceded by .11 day drinking bout. Kansas officers nave net yet found th'C botly of the Tniissias ma-n, which Hudgrins said he deposited in a.

roadside ditch. Hudssns was arrested at Tfaat- chervUle. near here. Sunday night, when he drove Trow bridge's blood- stained automobile into -a garage for major A suitcase con- taininET the oncer's uniform, with identifying marKs. found UTJ- der a culvert near Cherokee, in Northern Oklahoma, helpt-d Unk siTJS with Trow bridge's disap- Prayed To See Him Again, Cries Desperado's Mother DALLAS, Henry Barrow, mother of Barrow, Southwest killer slain in cried out in anguish Wednesday when informed her son had been shot down.

"And I prayed only last night that I might see him alive again, just once she sobbed, Mrs. Emma Parker, mother of Bonnie Parker, killed i tit. Clyde, fainted when informed by telephone that her top, had been killed. Relatives at the home said she suffered a breakdown. "Where did it happen?" she asked.

"Near Gibson, La, Do you have any relatives "No, but you must be kidding me." Both of tfcsni were killed," The telephone heard to drop and Mrs, Parker Anotherwoman took the phone to find out definitely that the young ccuole had lost their lives, Henry Barrow, father of Clyde, said at his filing station west of Dallas that he believed Mrs. Barrow would go to Louisiana. "We don't know yet," he "You see how she is. If it Will do any good, we'll let her go. That's all, I guess," Hamer Tells Phares Of Hunt's End Desperado's Eight Year Reign Of Terror Closed By Texas Ranger Guns SHREVEPORT, eight-year teal of murder and robbery of Clyde dangerous bandit of the South-west, was ended Wednesday beside Bonnie Parker, his woman companion in Surprised Them In Louis-1 crime, in a hail of bullets from a sheriff's posse, 50 miles east of here "Job Is Former Ranger Captain Tells Highway Chief HAD 'WATCHING HIDEOUT FOR WEEKS 'Not Surprise Says Bonnie Parker's Sister The confession told how TrowbritSge save him a rifie at Okla-, Saturday.

He aTitrgctj lha.s. shortly a'ter he tnler- I the car the began drinking. "The nsan ms drive the about fifteen miles north of Gre-rnsbursr, i he told me il I hit another fotttsip I tha.i hard he would hit me on the head with a. hammer. "After awliite I pot a chance to srab the hammer he held and bit him with it.

I hit him on the left the ead. and after I hit hires, by the Time. I the car stop- pcd he hold of me. I to hit him several times with the hammer get him loose from me." I After discovering: Trowbridye dead, Htidgifts said he took a bill from the officer's pocket. placed the body in a dstch.

and drove away. Friends of Trowbridgc in Sran hts home, said he left week intersdJnjr to drive to ward. for a visit with his father, reported critically ill there. Train Robber jLake Crook Is Quizzed mi Project to Robles a Be Finished Evidence Points to Ex- City Will Pay For Comple- Convict, Declare Ari- lion of Work Started zona Authorities On Buildings Expecting It To End This Way," 7 Billie Mace I FORT surprised." Mrs. siud quietly notorious sister.

7iot BiZlie Mace, I'l. i told that her Bonnie Parker, HAVANA. 35-year riiit'T of a Havana newspaper wsts jn a hosplal with a irt in his shouMer ownem of another ncwsixiper caused by a bomb ex T'UCSOX. An allesred Decision was made by the city participant in the nation's largest council Tuesday to complete the mail tra-in Bobbery was questioned work at I-ake Crook, which has by authorities here "Wednesday been done to this time by the CWA. concerning the $15.000 kidnaping despite the fact that no money will of June Koblcs.

six-year-old heir- be supplied by the relief asrency ess except for common labor. This Thc suspect. Joe Newton, rcfus- cision was made after the mayor ed to make an irtsi kidnaping. ras not of a Hereford. charge on which he was ar- has beon jd Tuesday nigh had beer, slain in Ixj'-siarta.

have expectirig; it to end this way." Mrs. Mace is the county j3.il or. murder charges oat of the slaying: of Higrhway Patrolmen Wheeler arid Murphy near Grapevine on I a crime for which her sister and Clyde Barrow already had been indicted- The young: paled when i first told that Barrow and the Parker woman had bees reported shot. Nervously she lighted a cigaret. I "Let me know when you learn definitely," she said.

A few minutes later the report- statements regard- and members of the council visited LPlnsr in which the 1 lake Tuesday morning: and. ac- or the rob- companied by Thomas Broad, ar- er returned to her eel! to ner Okla bank chitect in charce, had examined the news. Her eyes filled with The shelter house on the lake tears, She wanted to know the par- Officers said Newton had been the hardware for doors and win- Will Rogers under surveillance for several days pi aTO ins: and electric wir- dorlnc which time he had made aleriate arc Sn and Ihcse hav nocturnal visits here from a mine supp by the CWA be- Sonora, Mexico, it locality in ccascd operation, and there an intensive search was conducted for the Robles jrirl before she was found. is some lumber, but the city will bavo to buy more finishing lumber and some other Sheriffs investigators said that Thc housc or the power boats Newton made telephone calls to is near jy completed but the shel- BKVKKI.V HIULS, Tucson from the old Robles ranch ier for sma jj boats has only the now Is between Mr. I between and at the ffjvmework up and will require Durrow a.nC Genera! Hugh John- border.

They said they had learn- considerable material, some of Now there is a of tough I ed he lived at mine. wn jj on Around, and some to run Here Is a below the international with I fcsu labor. Mayor Crook and Johnson's favor, KOBBKK. Pas Col. that's in the mulligraphcd pasts- Xow can be an awful lot of thingsi wrens with a thins.

but pages kinder rubbing il tn. It xvoultl ro Ive have that many things it. Poor old NRAI If wo al! had aa much ttma it uc have argruJnsr it. it buvc worked. right or wrong, I Rs who rioted There arrrat good In it, asatn minister of eUuctttton.

i shore lacks the interior finish and ticulars and was especially anxious to learn if the Deputy Sheriff Al- corn who took part in the raid was Bob Alcorr. who formerly lived in Dallas. Sheriff L4UIe and several of his deputies cauxe into the Jail bat round that Mrs. Mace already had been told of her sister's death. The officers turned away, Only then did Mrs.

Mace break down. She besran to cry and threw her arms around Mrs. Fannte Poole. the jail matron. She was led back into her cell, threw herself face 'downward upon her bank sobbed, District Attorney Martin was not 1 in the city when news came.

He was in Dallas, checking: up Mrs, Mace's alibi thai she was at home. a brother. "Full. 11Jic jtlderrnen realized the situation Three other brothers. Wil-jand while the city, they said, is in lie.

and Jesse, department cf justice records disclosed, Joe served a federal prison Page Col. 4. first taking on Easter Sunday Prison bars and the bayonets of held in submission to develop Thursday university only a few hours after the opcn- of the Fundamentalist-j afternoon when the highway pa- Modernist controversy In trolmeu were shot to death on a year's general atssembly of the side road near Grapevine, Presbyterian church in the U. S. great tn U.

Now if both not enough the but if. and brandmhins; ended A two-day of the strtkinie students on when thej' rotftwl from utaiversJty build- ing is called to order. The touch-off xvlll numerous of the assembly in th? of moderator, to tho York oC flrwt of the TULSA, Okla. Developments affecting the producing, refining and marketing: divisions of the oil industry stirred the mid- continent area to alert attention this week. Of chief interest perhaps was tlw ruling of the circuit court of appeals Jit New 'Orleans which held: the- oil code valid.

It had barreled, effect. lana; Desperadoes Fire No Shots ACSTTX. Ii. G. Phares, chief of tJie state highway patrol.

amiouticed AVednesday that he was informed by Frank Hamer, in a conversation- that Clyde Barrow, notorious soutli- desperado- and Bonnie Paxker. ttJs compajiion. -were kOJefll Wednesday near Shrever port. ia. Hamer.

fornjer Texas Ranger; -JB- M. Gault, highway patrolman, and Ted Hinton and Bob" Alcorn. Dallas coonty sneriffs, encountered Barrow and the Parker woman at Black Tjake. JH) miles south of Snrevepoft. Phares -was "The job is done." Hamer told Phares over the tele- killed Clyde and Bon- tiie at 9:15 this morning.

They ivcre Black Lake. a. hideout -we liad been -watching for weeks, Clyde and Bonnie dJd not to fire a. shot. Their ca.p -was full of gruns and ammunition, but they did not gret a.

chance to use Phares said Hamer stated they were en route to Arca-dia. Z-a. is one of the state's best peace officers. He retired as captain of the Texas Rangers" headquarters company when the Fersruson administration was inducted nearly two years aao. He was succeeded by his brother.

15. Hamer of Dallas. Frank Hamer hac participated in the solution of many crimes in this state. Pbares revealed that Ham- ear had been commissioned a patrolman to help hunt down the soothwest's most feared criminals. men had been huut- the desperado since Easter Sunday when two high-way pawohnen were shot dead from their motorcycles near Grapevine by man and woman who were parked on a sido road.

The double murder was laid to Barrow and his woman companion in crime- Floyd Hamilton and Mrs, Billie Mace, a sister to Bonnie, also were accused of the patrolmen's murder and were indicted this week by a Tarrant county srrand jury. He said Hamer and Gaalt had been assigned exclusively to the Barrow-Parker hunt. They had operated in Tvras. Oklahoma. Missouri.

Arkansas and For two months they had been -watching the Black PUares, said. Several weeks ago, they barely missed the couple. their favorite rendezvous, After that they adopted a policy ot "sit ting and Phares said. Ttwry had abo watched hide onfcs along the Trinity river, near Corsicana. whore the killers had obtained protection 1 said.

WEATHER near the town of Gibsland. Both the man and woman wer3 killed instantly before thev could Hre a shot and their bodies and automobile riddled with bullets. They drove into a pesse ambush arranged by the former captain of Texas Rangers, Frank Hamer 7 wh3 had followed Barrow's trail relentlessly. With the posse 5 heavily armed-, in the brush along; the pavect car. broke ove? the horizon racing at an 85-mile As the car approached, an officer yelled Barrow 'and the woman answered by their and were met by SL fg- sillade from a dozen ipsns-.

Bonnie Parker died wth her head between her knees and a machine gun.on her lap. Barrow slumped behind the steering wheel with a revolver in his grip. The automobile careened from the road and smashed into an bankment. The officers continued' to fire until the car virtually was shot to pieces and the bodies were icidled. The bandits' trail was picked ui5 Wednesday morning by Hamer and three Texas Ranger associates in Bossier parish, where Barrow was reisorted to have relatives They followed the bandit car to Bienville parish where the Rangers were joined by Sheriff Henderson Jordon and a staff of deputies.

Law Catches Up With Outlaws Inset shows F. A. Hamer. for- i Bonnie Park- mer chief of Texas -who felled them in a fire be- lied the that finally caught fore the vies-poruJoes could fire a with Clyde Farrow, notorious shot, Southwest desperado and his smokirtar jrunwoTysan conrpatsion. crint- The officers feot ahead of the bandit car and laid in -waiting- ira- Barrow ran his car into the ambush.

i and his companiott tiad led officers in a wild pace over half a cozen siaies. Frequently they were cornered but either their pursuers or sliot it I our. They replenished taelr fuads by robbing banks atsd b'usiaess I Barro-sr was u-ante-3 for 1 killings and regarded, as- ers shooringr at ihe bat of an eye artc flee 1115: fast automobiles. I Bonnie Parker was charged" by officers with participation in raost of later crimes. i cer5 said she as quick on th.e 1 1 as her associate said J-UST elusive.

For -Creeks officers i ir. several states were prepared to shoot his companion I on sigrht. i Barrow broke into the records in 192S when he was ar- rested in Dallas for an automobtlft theft. In 1930. st.iH ho'ding the I reputation as a time crook.

he was sentenced to the Texas pen; itent-ary for 14 for burglary ar.d Iri he was paroled and immediately launched upon a career of crime and terrorism ur.til he became as tlte south west's number one bandit. His acts rose morxtb by untU last January he a raid on the Texas state prison far-an near Hiir.tsviUe. killed a and liberated his gang: tenant, Rkiymond cou- 4 n. Louisiana and victed killer and bank robber. arwJ other eonvvts.

After this he over halt" a dozen re- wii.n Bonnie Parker and last April Barrcnv snown in 3 his companion in of three EAST TJEIXAS: Pmrtly cloudy. probably in north- HMWC portion uisht ami Thursday sfilftinjc ly itorth. on coast, most- lo cloudy Barrow, Bitter In Hatred For Law, Started Bloody Career In Dallas In 1926 two state highway near Grapevine. Texas, ant! a stable at Miami, Okia. A days ago he was or.

gulf coast I officers belreved he headed for home of relatives in Clyde Barrow, furtive killer reported shot to death with Bonnie Parker. woman companion, in a clash with chance to protect themselves. Bar- In the recked bandit car, found three army auiorijalic shotguns, a machine a dozen and Most of the victims credited to OV erncr K. Alien jfiven deadly machine sun and pis-j a grraphic of the toi fire fell without having: a over lonjr by officers in Louisiana, became one rOWi who started out as an automo- of ihe nation's most dangerous outlaws through his ruthless resort to bile thief Dallas his subsequent, depredations on he encountered 1 fleers mistrcatlosr a. in carrying: out the yob- he uBdtrtook.

See CABRER, Vaire Col. Jordan and Governor Allen the name of the state The shonly after a. the 4..