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- ° | , : US. Department ste —_— woe & Federal Bureau of Lavestigation Waskangren. D.C. 28535 I.C. $€26-31672 oo December 14, 1934 {Revised October, 19683) CLYDE CHAMPION BARROW BONNIE PARKER I NATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT ACT Clyde Champion Barrow and his companion, Bonnie Parker, were shot to death by officers in ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934, after one of the most colorful and spectacular manhunts the Nation had seen up to that time. Sie 3 ba 17 ap Barrow was suspected of numerous killings and was wanted for murder, robbery, and on state charges of kidnaping. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (in early 1930's called the Bureau of Investigation) became interested in Barrow and his paramour late in December, 1932, through a Singular bit of evidence. A Ford automobile was found abandoned near Jackson, Michigan, which had been stolen in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in September of that year. At Paw $ it was learned another Ford car had been abandoned there which had . been stolen in Illinois. A search of this car revealed it -had E been occupied by a man and a woman, indicated by abandoned articles therein. In this car was found a prescription bottle, which é led Special Agents to a drug store in Nacogdoches, Texas, where investigation disclosed the woman for whom the prescription had been filled was Clyde Barrow's aunt. POE TERT wT G hed whi sak = HUBAG Buethar tanwacti & Wid LAID Cd the prescription had been v visit ted recently by Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde's brother, L. C. Barrow. It also was learned that these three were driving a Ford car, identified as the one stolen in Illinois. It was further shown that L. C. Barrow “tid secured the empty prescription bottle from a son of the woman who had originally obtained it. On May 20, 1933, the United States Commissioner at Dallas, 7°: Peres, desyed @ varrant against Clyde Barrow and Ronnie Parker, harging then with the interstate transportation, from Dallas to Ok mayor the automobile stolen in Illinois. The FBI then started its hunt ‘for this elusive pair. ee BACKGROUND Bonnie and Clyde met in Texas in January, 1930..-: Mt the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisoned murderer; fiyd was 21 and unmarried. Soon after, he was arrested for a Bary. . and sent to jail. He escaped, using a gun Bonnie had smuggied to “°°: him, was recaptured, and was sent back to prison. Clyde was paroled FT February, 1932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crime. zw be co 4 “