Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - famous American robbers operating in the Great Depression. The expression 'Bonnie and Clyde "became a common noun to designate the lovers engaged in criminal activity. Killed by FBI agents.

Bonnie Parker

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. When Bonnie was four, her father died, a mason by profession and a mother with three children moved to a suburb of Dallas. Despite the fact that her family lived in poverty, Bonnie made good progress in school, especially having succeeded in the literature.

. September 25, 1926 fifteen-Bonnie, an attractive petite girl (with height 150 cm, she weighed only 41 kg), married a man named Roy Thornton.

. In 1927, Bonnie began working as a waitress in 'Cafe Marco' in East Dallas.

. The relationship between the spouses did not work out
. A year after his marriage he began to regularly disappear for many weeks and already in January 1929, they parted. Shortly after the break (the official divorce was not, and Bonnie to death wore a wedding ring) Thornton got to five years in prison.

. Clyde Barrow

. Clyde Chestnut Barrow (Clyde Chestnut Barrow) was born March 24, 1909 near the town of telly, Texas
. He was the fifth child in a family of seven or eight children, his parents were poor farmers.

In the 16 years Clyde leaves school. He begins to work, but does not stay long in any place. He is more keen on cars. Playing the saxophone. For the first time police arrested Clyde for car theft in 1926. Soon followed by a second arrest - after the Clyde, along with his brother Buck stole turkeys.

In 1928, he leaves the house and lives with a friend. Several months later, Clyde decides to independently take on the organization of theft. His first attack - on the playing hall in Fort Bend County, where he threatened a broken gun disarms the two guards. Then follows a failed attempt burglary.

In late 1929 - early 1930, Clyde and Buck wanted by the police in many cities at this time, he met Bonnie Parker.

30th - the years of depression in the U.S.. January 13, 1930 Clyde Barrow comes to Dallas snack bar, shortly after his release from prison - it serves premilenkaya blonde ofitsiantochka, until then unknown Bonnie Parker. What happened between them? What mysterious force drew them to each other? Love at first sight or a sudden passion? Hardly: Perhaps Bonnie Clyde fascinated with stories about the romance of predatory life, . the boundless freedom and power, . that can be achieved by force of arms? This is closer to the truth,
. Bonnie sick of vegetating in a lousy cafe, it had long been hateful hamovatye clients and trays of dirty dishes. Work hard for peanuts in the cheap bar, to be married to the poor workers, narozhat children, which would then be nothing to feed, Bonnie did not want. In everyday life faded like to make any other colors. Varieties did not work: the life of Bonnie still remained one-color, true gray color changed to crimson - the color of human blood ... Little blond lump, "as Bonnie wrote about himself in his diary, aroused exciting stories about the life of reckless vagabonds, that told her Clyde. As a woman it is of little interest to gang leader. Those still in prison, changed his sexual orientation and lost two fingers on his leg under mysterious circumstances. Bonnie settled for amorous relations with other members of the gang. His friendship, they fueled with stories of robberies and violent brawls.

But we have sinned against the truth, if we say that Clyde and Bonnie were cold and passionless. They are passionately fond of weapons. Together they are often left outside the city staged a shooting. Perhaps the marksmanship of all weapons was the only science (Bonnie and Clyde were poorly educated and did not complete even primary education), in which they have achieved perfection. Sweet couple loved to be photographed with the weapon: Bonnie with a gun in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth sat before the cameras. Clyde with a rifle in the photos looked simpler - it lacked the artistry friend. Bonnie delighted with pistols, which her lover wore in a holster under his coat, and the force that comes from supporting the death of trees.

Soon they began to work together. Their odyssey began with a deadly store robbery with a weapon in Texas in the spring of 1930. There are armed to the teeth. Legend of 'robingudah' facilitating purses-bags untenable: a couple of basically robbed fast food, shops, petrol stations. By the way, the bank robberies at the time the special was not to earn money - the Great Depression of the banks raked all the big money, and Clyde gang sometimes get more, robbing any roadside shop. But sometimes on hand is not reached and $ 10. Scenario of robberies was usually as follows: Bonnie was sitting behind the wheel of a car, Clyde burst and took away the proceeds, then on the run, shooting, dart into the car. If someone tried to resist, he immediately received a bullet. However, they are ruthlessly removed, and innocent bystanders. They were not just thieves, they were murderers, and their accounts were as ordinary people like the owners of small shops and gas stations, and police, whom Clyde chose to kill to avoid jail.

Once the criminals kidnapped the sheriff, stripped and bound, thrown on the side with the words: 'Tell your people that we are not a gang of murderers. Log in to the situation of people trying to cope with this damn depression '.

. After killing the first police officer who decided to check the documents of a suspicious couple from the car, there was nothing left to lose: now they are probably waiting for the death penalty
. So Bonnie and Clyde set off to the winds and, without hesitation, fired at people in any situation, even when they are practically out of danger. 5 August 1932, two policemen spotted at the village feast Clyde. When they asked him to come, a bandit on the spot packed both. A month later, breaking through police roadblocks, the gang shot the twelve guardians of the law. Pretty soon, their band were joined by people: older brother Clyde Buck and his wife, Blanche, and a young lad with. U. Moss, whom they picked up at a gas station, the temptations of "free life" romantic highwayman. And also a lover of Bonnie Raymond Hamilton, to whom and Clyde took a special feeling ...

. Therefore, no unearthly love between Bonnie and Clyde was not, by definition, . although in, . they really were very committed to each other, . there was no doubt: Bonnie to his Clyde being pulled out of prison, . passing it out on a date weapons, . and Clyde later, . When police arrested Bonnie, . companion rescued, . brazenly attacked the police station,
. The killings aroused more than a couple of bloody sex or alcohol. At night, drank whiskey, and Bonnie wrote pompous romantic poems, which mourned his fate ... and amused with accomplices. Their own desire to live life happy and bright, and alike in their pathological passion for murder: that Bonnie, Clyde, that killed people because they liked to do. One member of the gang, named Jones, said during the interrogation: 'These two - a monster. I have never seen anyone who would have enjoyed killing '.

Once in Kansas, Bonnie first saw the poster "Wanted by the police" with its image. The fact that he and Clyde were "celebrities" Bonnie shook so much that she immediately sent the major newspapers in a dozen letters with pictures, which they did with Clyde in his criminal ways. Bonnie by all means at its disposal support his version that he and Clyde - fighters for justice. For banks that they robbed, owned by the powers that be, and not to poor farmers and small businessmen. Later in the newspapers were printed in its work:

Wildlife manners raiders, their unbridled passions and sordid desires point-whether the people fear. Of course, for them constantly hunted police. But for the time being gang Barrow incredibly lucky, and they manage to sneak out of the hit-roumnyh police trap. However, it was not just luck. Bonnie and Clyde was absolutely nothing to lose, so any attempt to police to get gang encountered terrible leaden downpour of 'Tommy-makers' ...

Early on in the criminal history of Clyde arrested. The first time he escaped with the help of Bonnie, the second time governor of the state yielded to the tearful pleas of his mother and Clyde was released from prison under a fair (!) Word. In 1933, when photos of Bonnie and Clyde with the inscription 'wanted by the police' adorned the streets of cities, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, identified the bandits householder, which they removed.

. The capture of the gang were sent all the police forces of the city Lawton, but the criminals after a fierce firefight that killed his brother Clyde, Bob, managed to escape into nearby woods
. Bloody couple miraculously escaped from the encirclement and move to Texas to meet with the mother of Clyde. Then they ended up in an ambush: the people the sheriff has long followed Cammie Barrow. Bonnie and Clyde received only scratches, but the machine on which they were running away from cops, the bullets looked like a sieve. Licked wounds, Barrow gang came out again on the 'high road'. Again nachaslya criminal terror: murder, carjacking, robbery. Hijackers took over the FBI. Head Office Edward Hoover named Clyde maddened animals, all forces had been ordered to shoot to kill. Hunt started ...

Texas sheriff Frank Hamer still ran across the path of love couples. He analyzed each of their attack, created the maps and charts of their movements for all these years, I studied all the places and ways of raids, which they chose. "I wanted to penetrate their diabolical plans, - he said - and I did it". Several months later, he tracked down with the acolytes Bonnie and Clyde. But the criminals went straight from under the nose. Finally, the father of one of the members of the gang, Henry Metvina, in exchange for the pardon of her son offered his help in locating. Henry Metvin gave police the key to the house where fugitives. The house was surrounded by two thick koltsamm police, all entrances to it are blocked.

On the morning of May 23, 1934 on the road, appeared stolen Ford. On the driver had dark glasses, sat beside a woman in a new red dress. In the car, were hidden away and two thousand rounds of ammunition, three rifles, twelve guns, two shotguns and pump action: sax. And yet, hope they were not on that. Meet them moved sheriff's car. Hamer out of the car and ordered the bandits to surrender. Clyde immediately grabbed his rifle, Bonnie - for a revolver. But it is unlikely they had time to make at least one shot. Lead hail fell on the car. More than five hundred bullets pierced the bodies of gangsters, and they were literally torn to pieces, and the police continued to pour deadly fire riddled car ...

. The first pages of American newspapers zapestreli reports of the death of Bonnie and Clyde
. Mutilated bodies of criminals were put on public display in the morgue, and wishing for one dollar could look at them. Was quite a lot of curious ... Photos of the dead bandits have published all the papers. America breathed a sigh of relief. The inscription on her tombstone Bonnie says: "As flowers bloom under the rays of the sun and the freshness of dew, and the world becomes brighter thanks to people like you."