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...Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia, and Broadway, whose fame as a pretty village has attracted swarms of bright young people "in gamboge and vermilion sports cars...
...Crockett, Tex. (TIME, Jan. 29). An awe-struck Press magnified him into one of the "worst killers of the Southwest." One morning last week Captain Hamer, who had been following Barrow from hideout to hideout, received a tip that Parker and Barrow would soon pass down a road near Arcadia, La. He and his five companions went there, lay in ambush, all on one side of the road to avoid a crossfire. One of the Texas deputies sighted a car speeding toward them at 85 m.p.h. It slowed down to pass a truck. The officers shouted an order to halt...
They towed the car to Arcadia whence two ambulances carried the bodies to Dallas. Among Bonnie Parker's effects was a poem she had written, her own threnody: Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they...
...using the mails to extort, were about to be prosecuted for robbing an oil man of $26. Their life terms in theory had thereby become life terms in fact. The trio: James Kirk, brain; Roy Williams and Larry Kerrigan, brawn, in the abduction of William F. Gettle of Arcadia (TIME...
...fumbled in the dark to make contact with his abductors. On the fifth day police traced telephone calls to a Los Angeles apartment, arrested one James Kirk and a woman who said she was his wife. Kirk sent them to a house in La Crescenta, few miles from the Arcadia estate. There they seized two other suspects, let one slip away. But they found and held fast to unharmed William F. Gettle...