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In addition to the automobile theft charge, Bonnie. and Clyde were suspects in other crimes. At the time they were killed in l934, they were believed to have committed 13 murders and several robberies and burglaries. Barrow, for example, was suspected of surdering two police officers at Joplin, nissourl, and kidnaping a man and a woman in rural Louisiana. He released them near Waldo, Texas. Numerous sightings followed, linking. this pair with bank robberies and automobile thefts. Clyde allegedly murdered a man at Hillsboro, Texas; committed robberies at Lufkin and Dallas, Texas; murdered one sheriff and wounded another at Stringtown, Oklahoma; kidnaped a deputy at Carlsbad, New Mexico; stole an automobile at Victoria, Texas; attempted to murder a deputy at Wharton, Texas; committed murder and robbery at Abilene, Texas; aurder and robbery at Sherman, Texas; another murder st Dallas, Texas; abducted a sheriff and the chief of police at Wellington, Texas; and committed a murder at Joplin, Missouri, and a murder at Columbia, Missouri. THE CRIME SPREE _BEGINS Later in l932, Bonnie and clyde began traveling with Raymond Hamilton, a young gunman. Hamilton left them several sonths later, and was replaced by william Daniel Jones in November, 1932. Ivan M. -Buck" Barrow, brother of Clyde, was released from the Texas State Prison on March 23, 1933, having been granted a full pardon by the Governor. He guickly joined ciyde, bringing his wife,Blanche, so the group now numbered five persons. This gang embarked upon a series of bold robberies which made headlines across the country. They escaped capture in various encounters With the law. Eowever, their activities made law enforcement efforts to apprehend them even more intense. During a shootout with police in Iowa on July 29, l933, Buck Barrow was fatally wounded and Blanche was captured. Jones, who was freguently pistaken for -pretty Boy* Floyd, was captured in November, l933, at Houston, Texas, by the sheriff's office. Bonnie and Clyde went on together. On November 22, l933, a trap was set by the Dallas, Texas, sheriff and his deputies in an attempt to capture Bonnie and Clyde near Grand Prairie, Texas, but the couple escaped the officers' gunfire. They held up an attorney on the highway and took his car, which they abandoned at Miami, Oklahoma. On Decenber 2l, 1933, Bonnie and Clyde held up and robbed a citizen at Shreveport, Louisiana. On January 16, 1934, five prisoners, including the. notorious Raynond Hamilton (who was serving sentences totaling sore. than 200 Years). were liberated from the Eastham State Prison Farm at Waldo, Texas, by Clyde Barrow, accompanied by Bonnie Parker. Two guards were shot by the~escaping prisoners with automatic pistols, which had been previously concealed in a ditch by Barrow. As the prisoners ran, Barrow covered their retreat with bursts of machine- gun fire. Anong the escapees was Henry Methvin of Louisiana.