Bonnie and Clyde by Paul Schneider

Author:Paul Schneider [Schneider, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429922647
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2009-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

She’s been glued to the radio since the first announcements of the killings up in Oklahoma. A suspect named Everett Milligan is under arrest up in McKinney, taken off a bus. The police think the other two are going to be caught any minute up in the Kiamichi Mountains. A deputy in Atoka thinks he wounded at least one of the bandits.

The endless afternoon becomes evening, and she announces to her mother that she has to get back to Wichita Falls. Has to work the next day, or something like that. Can she borrow the fare for the early bus?

Of course, of course. Emma doesn’t make much at the factory all week, but of course. She digs in her purse and finds the change, gives it to Bonnie. It’s about eight o’clock in the evening now.

“We were again sitting on the porch, saying very little,” Emma says. “A car drove up in front of the house with a boy in it whom I had never seen before. Bonnie ran out and talked with him a few minutes. She came back and said she had a ride to Wichita and wouldn’t wait till daylight. She gave me her bus fare, took her handbag, kissed me good-bye, and left.”

So much for lying low in Oklahoma and letting Texas cool off. Before the week is out the police have you and Hamilton figured as the Stringtown dance hall killers. The trail of cars, and maybe some fingerprints, helped them a little. But the real break is that Everett Milligan spills the beans to a couple of detectives from Dallas who interrogate him on Sunday night in Atoka. He’s back there, having been arrested off the bus in McKinney, Texas, and taken directly back to Oklahoma for questioning. He’s back there saying whatever he needs to, to make it clear that he was just dancing when all the hell broke loose. He’s naming names.

“They gained definite information from the man held as to the identity of the two men in the shooting” is how the Dallas Morning News reports it on Tuesday. Yeah, you read that paper, or one of the other Dallas rags saying pretty much the same thing. It also says, “The two desperadoes have been sought by Dallas police for several months in connection with hijackings here and a filling station murder in Hillsboro several months ago.” Those clues are not lost on you.

The Oklahoma papers don’t mince words. “Positive identification of the two who escaped was furnished Sunday by Constable H. Hunt of Grandview, Texas,” says the Indian Citizen-Democrat. “One of them is Clyde Barrow, wanted for murder of J. Bucher, a merchant of Hill County, Texas, and [the other is] Raymond Hamilton, pal of Barrow and wanted for highjacking and other crimes.”

Milligan says something else interesting as well. He tells the Dallas lawmen that the reason he isn’t afraid to identify who he was traveling with is that they can’t harm him as long as he is “cooped up” in jail.

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