CALLOUS CRIME
Bandit Shoots Two Police Officers. AUSTIN. April 2. Clyde Barrow, “ No. 1 Outlaw ” ©f Kansas* Oklahoma and Texas. has superseded Jack Dillinger in killing activity. Patrolmen Murphy and Wheeler were shot while on their motor-cycles as they approached a parked automobile they had been following. They had no chance for their lives, their pistols being still in their holsters. The killer stepped from behind the car and filled them with btickshot as they approached. Witnesses fix the shooting on Barrow, who was accompanied by his blonde companion, Bonnie Parker. She calls herself “ Suicide Sal,” smokes cigars, and writes morbid poetry about death. Fort Worth detectives found a stub of a cigar marked by Bonnie's small teeth w’here passers-by said she was standing following the shooting. Another member of Barrow’s gang, Raymond Hamilton, robbed a bank at Mexia, in West Texas, kidnapped a woman from her automobile, drove her into Houston as protection against police bullets, and then released her unharmed.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 1
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162CALLOUS CRIME Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 1
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