1108. BONNIE & CLYDE Lot of items from the estate of BLANCHE BARROW (several of which appear on a website devoted to the Barrow Gang: http://debez.com/blanche/bpapers.html), including her birth certificate and copies of correspondence regarding possible release from prison for her part in crimes committed by the Bonnie and Clyde Gang. Includes twenty-five original photographs of Buck Barrow, his brother L.C. Barrow, Blanche Barrow and their friends and family, with some labeled in the hand of Blanche Barrow. One photograph, taken in prison while with her friend Jean Clay, contains a note and full signature of Blanche Barrow on the verso; one photograph of Blanche playing "stick-em up" holding a gun to Pearl Tom, a cousin of the Barrow family while on her honeymoon with Buck (reminiscent of the popular photographs of Bonnie and Clyde in similar poses) and several typed letters from Wilbur J. Winkler, a former employer, pleading for her release, medical attention for the wounds to her eye and offering her employment if paroled. While there is no evidence she ever fired a gun during this time, she was present at shootouts in Joplin, Missouri in which two law officers were killed, and in Platte County, Missouri at the Red Crown Tourist Court in which three officers were wounded and Buck was mortally wounded. After the Platte County shootout, they fled with Bonnie and Clyde to Dexter, Iowa, where she was captured in another shootout. Buck died at Kings Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa on July 29 of a head wound from the Platte County shootout. Blanche was taken back to Platte County by Sheriff Holt Coffee, who had been wounded in the shootout. She was to remain in contact with the sheriff and his family, as well as Platte City prosecutor David Clevenger throughout the rest of her life. At the time of her arrest, Blanche weighed eighty-one pounds and stood five foot one inch tall. Blanche was sentenced to ten years in prison for her part in the Joplin shootout. She served six years and received state-of-the-art medical treatment for her left eye, which was pierced with glass during the gang's flight from the Platte City tourist court, although she eventually lost all sight in the eye. Following her release from prison, Blanche Barrow moved to Dallas and was remarried in 1940 to Eddie Frasure. One year later, she completed her parole. Blanche lived quietly with her husband until her death from cancer in December 1988. A fine group of original material relating directly to the Bonnie & Clyde gang. Letters trimmed and glued down. $500 - 750