Bonnie and Clyde

‎1933: Buck joins the gang

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	The lawmen assembled a five-man force in two cars on April 13 to confront what they suspected were [[rum-running|bootlegger]]s living in the garage apartment. Though taken by surprise, Clyde was noted for remaining cool under fire. He, Jones, and Buck quickly killed Detective McGinnis and fatally wounded Constable Harryman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer/8972-detective-harry-l.-mcginnis |title=Detective Harry L. McGinnis |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page |accessdate=November 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Constable J.W. Harryman |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer/6155-constable-j.-w.-Dallasharryman |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page |accessdate=November 5, 2009}}</ref> During the escape from the apartment, Parker laid down covering fire with her own BAR, forcing Highway Patrol sergeant G. B. Kahler to duck behind a large oak tree while [[.30-06 Springfield|.30 caliber bullets]] struck the other side, forcing wood splinters into the sergeant's face.<ref>Ballou, James L., ''Rock in a Hard Place: The Browning Automatic Rifle'', Collector Grade Publications (2000), p. 78.</ref> Parker got into the car with the others. They slowed enough to pull in Blanche Barrow from the street, where she was pursuing her dog Snow Ball.<ref>Parker, Cowan and Fortune, p. 114.</ref> The surviving officers later testified that their side had fired only fourteen rounds in the conflict,<ref>Ramsey, pp. 102. The contemporary photos and drawings of the hideout are particularly valuable.</ref> but one hit Jones in the side, one struck Clyde and was deflected by his suitcoat button, and one grazed Buck after ricocheting off a wall.		The lawmen assembled a five-man force in two cars on April 13 to confront what they suspected were [[rum-running|bootlegger]]s living in the garage apartment. Though taken by surprise, Clyde was noted for remaining cool under fire. He, Jones, and Buck quickly killed Detective McGinnis and fatally wounded Constable Harryman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer/8972-detective-harry-l.-mcginnis |title=Detective Harry L. McGinnis |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page |accessdate=November 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Constable J.W. Harryman |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer/6155-constable-j.-w.-Dallasharryman |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page |accessdate=November 5, 2009}}</ref> During the escape from the apartment, Parker laid down covering fire with her own BAR, forcing Highway Patrol sergeant G. B. Kahler to duck behind a large oak tree while [[.30-06 Springfield|.30 caliber bullets]] struck the other side, forcing wood splinters into the sergeant's face.<ref>Ballou, James L., ''Rock in a Hard Place: The Browning Automatic Rifle'', Collector Grade Publications (2000), p. 78.</ref> Parker got into the car with the others. They slowed enough to pull in Blanche Barrow from the street, where she was pursuing her dog Snow Ball.<ref>Parker, Cowan and Fortune, p. 114.</ref> The surviving officers later testified that their side had fired only fourteen rounds in the conflict,<ref>Ramsey, pp. 102. The contemporary photos and drawings of the hideout are particularly valuable.</ref> but one hit Jones in the side, one struck Clyde and was deflected by his suitcoat button, and one grazed Buck after ricocheting off a wall.
−	[[File:WDJonesAndGuns1933.jpg|thumb|Just 16 years old, W. D. Jones committed two murders in his first two weeks as Clyde Barrow's protégé.]]	+	[[File:WDJonesAndGuns1933.jpg|thumb|Just 16 years old, W. D. Jones committed two murders in his first two weeks as Clyde Barrow's protégé. The cut-down shotgun is one of Barrow's "whippit" guns.<ref>[ "It had a one-inch rubber band he'd cut out of a car-tire inner tube attached to the cutoff stock. He'd slip his arm through the band and when he put his coat on, you'd never know the gun was there. The rubber band would give when he snatched it up to fire." "Riding with Bonnie and Clyde."]</ref> The pistol decorating the hood ornament is Officer Persell's.<ref>[ Persell had watched their car slowly cruising the downtown area and suspected an imminent car theft. He stopped them on a bridge, which made Barrow suspect that more police were lying in wait on the other side. They released him unharmed six hours later and fifty miles away, but kept his Russian-made, custom-grip gun, which was next seen in the roll of photographs recovered at Joplin, in one picture hooked over the hood ornament of their latest stolen V-8, in another tucked into Barrow's waistband as Parker holds a shotgun on him and reaches to take it. "Riding with Bonnie and Clyde"; Guinn pp.157-59; O'Brien, Mike. "Book follows bloody trail of Bonnie, Clyde across Ozarks," Springfield News-Leader, January 4, 2004. The photographs: Ramsey pp. 108-13. Persell moved on with his life and never spoke much about the incident, though it came up again decades later, when he let his granddaughters bring him to school for show and tell. "Bank Robbers Bonnie, Clyde Kidnapped Policeman in 1933." Rootsweb: Local History. Originally published in the Springfield Leader-Press, Oct. 10, 1999.]</ref>]]]
		+	[[File:Bonnie apuntant de broma a Clyde amb una escopeta.jpg|thumb|Bonnie with a shotgun reaches for officer Persell's pistol in Clyde's waistband.<ref>[See preceding footnote]</ref>
	The group escaped the police at Joplin, but left behind most of their possessions at the apartment: items included Buck and Blanche's marriage license, Buck's parole papers (three weeks old), a large arsenal of weapons, a handwritten poem by Bonnie, and a camera with several rolls of undeveloped film.<ref>Parker, Cowan and Fortune, p 115</ref> The film was developed at ''[[The Joplin Globe]]'' and yielded many now-famous photos of Barrow, Parker and Jones clowning and pointing weapons at one another.<ref>Ramsey p 108–113. He said that he published all the frames from the Joplin rolls in proper sequence, but missed at least ten: one is a shot of W. D. Jones sitting at the wheel of the Rosborough car with "Bonnie's" cigar clenched in his teeth like FDR (Barrow and Phillips, p 60); another has Jones lounging atop the clay bank behind the car (Barrow and Phillips, p 107); another is a second shot of Clyde alone up on the rocks, but with his hat off (Knight and Davis, p 72). Three frames not yet published in books are available to view at the Bonnie and Clyde-oriented website ''Boodles Board'' [http://www.tmethvin.com/temp/b&c-rocks2.pdf]: in two, W.D. is perched high on the rocks, and in a third, Clyde and W.D. play movie outlaws behind some large boulders, pointing their pistols. At the same website is a facsimile of a 1935 ''Startling Detective Adventures'' magazine, including a rare shot of Clyde squatting in front of the car by the clay bank. The final three of the missed ten are in the Ramsey book, but not included in the Joplin gallery: one is a "profile" of the Rosborough car alone (Ramsey, p 98); a second is Clyde standing by himself near the rocks with his hat in his hand (Ramsey, p 41); and finally a shot of Jones, with the weedy clay bank as background (Ramsey, p 80). The film was the then-popular size 116, discontinued in 1984; the Kodak No. 2A Folding Autographic Brownie camera, on loan from Blanche (Barrow and Phillips, p 227n10) produced eight shots per roll. The negatives known today are copy negs made in 1963. (Ramsey, p 107)</ref> When the poem and the photos, including one of Parker clenching a cigar in her teeth and a pistol in her hand, went out on the newly installed newswire, the obscure five criminals from Dallas became front-page news across America as the Barrow Gang. The poem "Story of 'Suicide Sal{{'"}} was an apparent backstory.		The group escaped the police at Joplin, but left behind most of their possessions at the apartment: items included Buck and Blanche's marriage license, Buck's parole papers (three weeks old), a large arsenal of weapons, a handwritten poem by Bonnie, and a camera with several rolls of undeveloped film.<ref>Parker, Cowan and Fortune, p 115</ref> The film was developed at ''[[The Joplin Globe]]'' and yielded many now-famous photos of Barrow, Parker and Jones clowning and pointing weapons at one another.<ref>Ramsey p 108–113. He said that he published all the frames from the Joplin rolls in proper sequence, but missed at least ten: one is a shot of W. D. Jones sitting at the wheel of the Rosborough car with "Bonnie's" cigar clenched in his teeth like FDR (Barrow and Phillips, p 60); another has Jones lounging atop the clay bank behind the car (Barrow and Phillips, p 107); another is a second shot of Clyde alone up on the rocks, but with his hat off (Knight and Davis, p 72). Three frames not yet published in books are available to view at the Bonnie and Clyde-oriented website ''Boodles Board'' [http://www.tmethvin.com/temp/b&c-rocks2.pdf]: in two, W.D. is perched high on the rocks, and in a third, Clyde and W.D. play movie outlaws behind some large boulders, pointing their pistols. At the same website is a facsimile of a 1935 ''Startling Detective Adventures'' magazine, including a rare shot of Clyde squatting in front of the car by the clay bank. The final three of the missed ten are in the Ramsey book, but not included in the Joplin gallery: one is a "profile" of the Rosborough car alone (Ramsey, p 98); a second is Clyde standing by himself near the rocks with his hat in his hand (Ramsey, p 41); and finally a shot of Jones, with the weedy clay bank as background (Ramsey, p 80). The film was the then-popular size 116, discontinued in 1984; the Kodak No. 2A Folding Autographic Brownie camera, on loan from Blanche (Barrow and Phillips, p 227n10) produced eight shots per roll. The negatives known today are copy negs made in 1963. (Ramsey, p 107)</ref> When the poem and the photos, including one of Parker clenching a cigar in her teeth and a pistol in her hand, went out on the newly installed newswire, the obscure five criminals from Dallas became front-page news across America as the Barrow Gang. The poem "Story of 'Suicide Sal{{'"}} was an apparent backstory.