It Happened in Louisiana by Stuart Bonnye;

Author:Stuart, Bonnye;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493015900
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: 2015-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

THEY GOT WHAT THEY HAD COMING

1934

May 23, 1934, began as just another day for the infamous duo. They had been on the run for a while, but had high hopes for a little rest and relaxation soon. Springing Eastham Prison Farm inmates Raymond Hamilton and Henry Methvin back in January had enabled Clyde to exact his revenge on the notorious Texas facility where he had once spent so many tortured days. But the subsequent killing of a guard and the negative publicity meant they were now being hunted like dogs, relentlessly.

Captain Frank A. Hamer, a former Texas Ranger, was assigned by the Texas Department of Corrections to pursue the Barrow Gang. Since February, the tall, stoic law-seeker had often lived out of his car as he stealthily tracked his prey, town after town, always a constant shadow trailing the criminals who continued stealing, bank robbing, and killing. Bonnie still suffered from third-degree leg burns she incurred when the getaway car flipped and caught on fire while the gang was trying to escape toward the Texas–Oklahoma border. Bonnie Parker, a twenty-three-year-old who had won top honors in school, and Clyde Barrow, a twenty-five-year-old Texas killer, were still under indictment for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis, and warrants were out for their arrest on February 10, 1934.

The summer had swept in hot and heavy as usual, but times would get even hotter for the wanted criminals. It seemed law enforcement had finally had enough of the murder and mayhem left in the wake of the Barrow Gang. Because of their new notoriety, the necessities of everyday living became problematic. Restaurants and motels loomed as possible ambush sites. Rough campsites, close quarters, and living out of their cars pitted gang members against each other. It was time to split up and as the summer heat turned up full blast, Bonnie and Clyde found themselves on their own. Clyde nursed Bonnie’s burns, which had caused the muscles in her right leg to contract and draw up. She could hardly walk and was relegated to hopping on her good leg or being carried from place to place by Clyde. The couple had already made history, but not in a good way, and both were in need of some peace.

Hamer was ever at their back. He had studied the gang’s movements, and he knew that they liked to stay close to state borders and put into their getaway plans the “state line” rule that didn’t allow officers from one jurisdiction to pursue a fugitive across the border. Hamer knew also that the gang’s travel routes often included homes and farms of family members as possible hideout locations. As he tracked the pair to Louisiana, Hamer reckoned the gang was due to drop in on Henry Methvin’s family. The law enforcement contingent that he directed included Dallas County Sheriff deputies Bon Alcorn and Ted Hinton, the former Texas Ranger B. M. “Manny” Gault, and Bienville Parish Sheriff Henderson Jordan and his deputy Prentiss Oakley.

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