Word: barrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle he was charged by a 19-year-old girl with being the father of her child. Last week Frank Dorbandt was in more trouble. Flying a sick boy from Point Barrow to Anchorage, Alaska, he landed at St. Johns, picked up some men who had been marooned there three weeks. When he reached Anchorage, carrying eleven passengers, a dog and 200 gal. of gasoline, a Department of Commerce inspector claimed his plane was overloaded by 2,000 lb., revoked his license...
...finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since he began serving a long sentence at Houston, Tex., her companion has been the other person for whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow. Clyde Barrow's youth in Dallas was devoted to stealing automobiles. In 1930 he was sent to prison, paroled in February 1932. Thereafter he still stuck to petty thievery, never got more than $3,500 at one haul, but he did begin to find sport in shooting down, without...
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...
Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
...just starting to school in his car, drove south with him all day and all night. Next morning at a crossroads in Oklahoma they met by prearrangement a car with Texas license plates driven by a woman, who, from Dresser's description, was none other than Clyde Barrow's paramour, the fair, cigar-smoking Bonnie ("Suicide Sal") Parker. There Dresser was released and the convicts drove off with her in the direction of the Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing fugitive, Charles Clifton McArthur, burglar and murderer, was captured as he entered...