Description:

1821. THE DEATH OF BONNIE AND CLYDE A fine account of the shooting of outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as reported in the Chicago Daily Tribune and New York Daily News (International Edition), Paris, May 24, 1934, 8pp. folio. The headline boldly announces: "SOUTHWEST KILLER, MOLL SLAIN... CLYDE BARROW DIES FIGHTING IN LOUISIANA... Bonnie (Suicide Sal) Parker Shoots It Out With 'Rattlesnake'...". The story, continued on the back page, reads in small part: "...The mad career of Clyde Barrow, the Texas Rattlesnake, and his two-gun cigar-smoking moll Bonnie...came to a sudden climax near a backwoods Louisiana hideout...ambushed by plainclothes men led by a Captain of Texas Rangers...Police had been hiding along the roadside approaching the gangsters' desolate retreat for the past three weeks. Today they drove squarely into a trap...machine gun fire cut them down...car overturned and somersaulted madly...both had been riddled by the officers' bullets..." The last page bears a similar headline and photo of the criminal duo. Very good. $300-400

Accepted Forms of Payment:

June 17, 2007 12:00 PM EDT
Stamford, CT, US

Alexander Historical Auctions LLC

You agree to pay a buyer's premium of 0% and any applicable taxes and shipping.

View full terms and conditions