Volume 18 , Issue 1

April 1934 - Net Spred to Get Barrow

It was reported in the Miami Daily News-Record, Miami, Oklahoma, dated 2 April 1934, Monday, page 1: Net Spread Here To Get Barrow." Sheriff received information that the texan outlaw was headed that way.

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Clyde Barrow, the Texas outlaw, and Bonnie Parker, cigar-smoking ally along the trail of murder and robbery, were believed headed for a hideaway near Miami, Oklahoma.

This latest chapter was written in the gunman's book of crime Sunday afternoon near Grapevine, Texas. The slaying of two highway officers there the day before were credited to Barrow and his companion, who loosed a murderous fire on the two and then fled in a V-8 Ford sedan, the type of machine the gunman habitually drives. The report that the two were headed for northeast Oklahoma was received that morning by Sheriff Dee Watters. The sheriff withheld the source of the information, but placed credence enough in it to spread a net for the fugitives.

Barrow, the non-hesitant one when it came to exchanging bullets with police officers, was in hiding near Miami once before at the time he abandoned a bloodstained and bullet riddled automobile near there. His contact point was not known at that time, but the authorities discovered the lair and closed in on him, being frustrated when information leaked out and the bandit left hurriedly only a few minutes before the raid.

Barrow's steel vest, said to be worn constantly, would be of little value to him here if he was sighted, Sheriff Watters said. All members of the special posse on the lookout for him had been advised of the vest and were armed with shotguns, which would not be directed at the body protector.

Barrow was reported to have made the statement that he was going to "get" another cop in this vicinity. The name of the officer alleged to be "on the spot" was not known.
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