Clyde Barrow, notorious Texas outlaw and his cigar smoking gunwoman, Bonnie Parker, were ambushed and were shot to death near Arcadia, Louisiana today, in a sensational encounter with a posse led by an oldtime Texas Ranger.

The law-mocking desperadoes whizzing along a little used highway at 85 miles an hour ran right into a trap set for them, after having been lured into the state by the relative of an ex-convict who promised protection.

Before he or Bonnie Parker could get their guns into action, the officers riddle them with bullets.

Barrow’s car running wild, careened from the road and smashed into an embankment. As the wheels spun, the posse continued to fire until the car was almost shot to pieces.

The body of the gunman, who four years ago was a minor hoodlum, who was scarcely known outside of Dallas, was found slumped over the steering wheel, a revolver in one hand.

Bonnie Parker died with her head between her knees. She was still clutching a machine gun.

“We killed Clyde and Bonnie at 9:45 this morning,” reported Ted Hinton, one of the Texas officers said.
Frank Hamer, former captain in the Texas Rangers had been waiting in the brush for four days for Barrow to come on his regular run.

“Clyde and Bonnie did not get to fire a shot,” Hamer said. “Their car was full of guns and ammunition and they did not get the chance to use them.”

While the law was scoring this victory in Louisiana, Evelyn Frechette, friend of the fugitive, John Dillinger and Dr. Clayton May, convicted of harboring  the Indiana criminal, were sentenced in St. Paul, Minnesota to two years in prison.

Compiled by Lou Hunsinger Jr.