#eastham prison

[westdallasgang]

Three-headed snake ring found inside Bonnie and Clyde's abandoned car after a failed ambush on November 22, 1933.

The ring was recovered from their bullet-riddled ’33 Ford Model B by Sheriff Smoot Schmid after the "Sowers Raid" in Sowers, Texas. Bonnie and Clyde made plans for a family gathering to celebrate the birthday of Clyde's mother. Unbeknownst to them, the Dallas police were informed by an unnamed informant where they would be ahead of time, and a five man posse awaited their arrival that same night. It was 6:45pm when the outlaw couple approached the secret meeting in their stolen vehicle. Clyde's instincts sensed the trap and he accelerated past his family's car at which point the lawmen unleashed a hail of bullets. Bonnie and Clyde were forced to flee on foot after three of their car's tires were punctured. Despite the wounds in their legs, they successfully escaped.

The five man posse then raided the abandoned Ford and discovered a cache of Bonnie and Clyde’s personal belongings. Most of them took home a variety of relics, ranging from bullets to lipstick cases. This ring is recorded in the Schmid family’s inventory as “Bonnie Parker's Ring". Although, no one knows for sure if it was Bonnie's.

What we do know is that Clyde was a skilled amateur craftsman, dabbling in jewelry-making, leather craft and woodwork. He was also a skilled musician. The ring most likely was self-made by Clyde around 1930-1932 while incarcerated at Eastham Prison. There's a lot of giveaways in the ring's details, like the arrow passing through the musical note “B” for Barrow. The red and green jewels were commonly used in his other crafts with similar styles and artistic approach. Schmid's descendants auctioned off the ring back in 2017 and it was sold for $25,000.

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[mumble-muse]

a list of (maybe?) all the queer characters that appear in midsomer murders.

cw for homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, abuse, death, violence, slurs and sexual content.

spoilers for all series.

Series 1-5

Notes:

Where possible I've avoided using specific labels but used descriptions given within the episodes by the characters themselves or others.

I've included brief descriptions of their role in the episode and other details. These are not intended as full summaries.

I've used the wiki to check details so hopefully it's fairly accurate.

Season 1: Tom Barnaby & Gavin Troy

Gerald Hadleigh, E01S01 Written in Blood. Sexually abused as a child, he kills his father and runs away. He is revealed during the episode to cross-dress and is described by other characters as a transvestite. He attends a gay bar in Causton. Other characters, including Troy, express confusion and/or disgust at his cross-dressing and his dresses. He is killed by another character for implying he and her brother were lovers and her disgust at seeing him in a dress. Barnaby is largely neutral about Gerald, but does assume he must have seen a psychologist regarding his cross-dressing.

Tim Young & Avery Phillips , E02S01 The Hollow Man. They run a second hand bookshop and are partners. Avery expresses concern to another character that Tim is cheating and/or will lose interest as he did not identify as gay his entire life. Later, Tim is revealed to have been having an affair with a woman. She threatens to reveal the affair, but Tim confesses to Avery before she can. We see Avery crying in his arms as Tim tells him that he only loves him.

Simone Hollingsworth and Sarah Lawton, E03S01 Faithful Unto Death. Troy immediately calls them dykes cause of course he does. Sarah has a little chat with Barnaby about the joy of being the only gays in the village. Barnaby is very chill and accepting. Simone and Sarah fake a kidnapping to help Simone escape her (supposedly) abusive husband, kill a bunch of people and steal some money. Simone betrays Sarah after Sarah has gone to prison for her.

Season 2: Tom Barnaby & Gavin Troy

Ian Eastham and Charles, E01S02 Death's Shadow. Ian is discovered in bed with Charles (a youngish minor character) by our detectives. Ian says he is not gay and is disgusted by his own impulses. He is paying Charles to sleep with him.

Season 3: Tom Barnaby & Gavin Troy

Arthur Prewitt, E02S03 Blue Herrings. A resident of the residential nursing home. Almost immediately described as a "poofter" by Troy. Barnaby reminds Troy that it was illegal to be gay when Arthur was young. Troy laughs cause he's an arsehole. Arthur is a very particular and tidy person. He confesses to tidying another resident's room, accidentally scaring her and causing her death out of shock.

Frank Mannion, E03S03 Judgement Day. A TV presenter and judge for the village competition. Is mostly just flirty and bitchy. Honestly kind of delightful. Unfortunately gets a lot of snide homophobia from other characters.

Alan Bradford, E04S03 Beyond the Grave. He's briefly suspected of taking vengeance on a woman for not being into him but, in a hilarious analogy, he describes himself as "If sexuality were the Civil War, I'd be a Cavalier not a Roundhead". He then says he's never been attracted to the opposite sex. Luckily Troy makes no comment.

Season 4: Tom Barnaby & Gavin Troy

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Season 5: Tom Barnaby & Gavin Troy

Melissa Townsend and Sally Rickworth E01S05 Tainted Fruit. Melissa is killed early on and Sally is suspected briefly after their previous affair was revealed. Their relationship is a secret and historical and really they're frenemies. Also Melissa is played by Lucy Punch and therefore incredible.

Honourable mentions:

Dennis Rainbird from the pilot episode, The Killings at Badger's Drift. Assigned suspiciously queer at Gavin Troy but there isn't much here to say either way.

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[aidenwaites]

Sorry but I AM still thinking about Bonnie Parker's poetry. It's the fact that of the four poems of hers that are online, two of them are directly about her or Clyde, and two of them are stories of other characters that carry similarities with herself. Three of them end with a direct reference to death, and even the one that doesn't still ends with a kind of promise to hold out "Now 'till the last." (The Street Girl being a poem about a woman who will never marry then person she loves because of her rough past).

(An interesting note, Bonnie never married Clyde, but she did die wearing a wedding band. It was that of her former husband's who she'd never actually properly divorced from. He himself was in prison for a large part of the remainder of their lives, and died soon after Bonnie herself in 1933 during an escape attempt. Before his death, he was quoted saying he was glad Bonnie and Clyde went out the way they did, for it was better than getting caught.)

(Another side note, Clyde's reasoning for remaining on the run, and for preferring to shoot before risking arrest, came from his own experiences in the Texas prison system. Particularly, in the notoriously ruthless Eastham Prison farm.)

There's just something so heavy in the fact that they were so sure of how their lives were going to end. In The Tale of Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie writes "They don't think they're too tough or desperate, // They know that the law always wins; // They've been shot at before, // But they do not ignore // That death is the wages of sin." Outlaws is all about comparing Clyde to Billy the Kid- an outlaw of the late 1800s who was shot dead by the law at the age of 21.

(Bonnie was 23 when she was killed. Clyde was 25.)

#they kept in regular contact with their family. their mothers would beg them to give it up #but by that point they were in so deep and when they were faced with a shoot out or an arrest i dont think they felt they had a choice #hi this has been in my drafts since last night so here u go

[thecrimecrypt]

Blockbuster Crimes (Bonnie & Clyde)

The story behind one of history’s most infamous criminal couples.

On 5 January 1930, in West Dallas, Texas, Bonnie Parker, 19, met Clyde Barrow, 21. Bonnie was a bored waitress, estranged from her jailed husband, while Clyde was a petty criminal. 

They fell head over heels in love. Soon after, when Clyde was jailed for burglary, Bonnie smuggled in a gun to help him escape.  He was recaptured, sent back to jail. But when he was released in February 1932, Clyde rejoined Bonnie and they stole a car, committed a string of robberies. That April, Bonnie was caught and jailed for two months. 

And when she was released, she and Clyde embarked on their infamous crime spree, rampaging through Depression-era America with an ever-changing team of accomplices.  They robbed banks and convenience stores, murdering anyone who got in their way. 

In the summer of 1932, the couple travelled with Clyde’s boyhood friend Raymond Hamilton, although he was later jailed.  That August, while Bonnie was visiting her mother, Clyde and Raymond were drinking at a country dance. Sheriff Maxwell and his deputy Eugene Moore approached them in the car park. 

Clyde opened fire, killing the deputy.  As their crime spree continued, they became known as the Barrow Gang. In March 1933, Clyde’s brother, Buck Barrow, was released from prison. He and his wife Blanche joined Bonnie, Clyde and their gang. 

The Barrow Gang committed a string of daring robberies and made headlines across the country, particularly Bonnie - an unlikely criminal.  Bonnie and Clyde even posed for playful photos, brandishing guns. However, the notorious lovers were almost caught in April 1933, when police raided their hideout. 

Bonnie provided cover with a hail of bullets from her automatic rifle as the gang shot their way out.  Two police officers were shot dead as the gang escaped. But the criminal couple had to leave behind most of their possessions in the hideout - including a roll of undeveloped film, containing photos subsequently released to the media. 

They included the now-infamous snap of Bonnie beside a car, cigar clenched between her teeth, and pistol in her hand.  Photos of the outlaws were front-page news. In June 1933, Bonnie suffered terrible burns to her right leg during a high-speed car crash. 

Clyde had missed a detour sign, flipping the car into a ravine, and acid from the crushed battery melted Bonnie’s flesh to the bone.  Her burns were so severe that, from then on, she limped, hopped or was carried by Clyde. 

The following month, they were almost caught during a second raid on a hideout in Missouri.  Buck was killed during the shootout, Blanche arrested and later jailed. But Bonnie and Clyde continued their life of crime. 

In January 1934, they attacked Eastham Prison Farm in Texas, freeing five prisoners, including Raymond Hamilton.  Several guards were shot, one killed by the escaping prisoners - using automatic pistols Clyde had hidden in a ditch. 

As the prisoners ran, Clyde covered their retreat with bursts of machine-gun fire.  After this, Texan prison officials hired special investigator Captain Frank Hamer to track down the couple. 

Hamer soon traced the duo, set up an ambush. Before dawn, on 23 May 1934, Hamer and four police officers hid in bushes along a country road near Sailes, Louisiana. 

When Bonnie and Clyde appeared and attempted to drive away in their stolen car, the officers opened fire - killing Bonnie and Clyde instantly.  Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker and the Barrow Gang were responsible for at least 13 murders, including those of nine police officers. 

And while their violent story has been romanticized - their bullet-riddled car is still on display at a hotel and casino in Primm, Nevada - they take their place as one of history’s most dangerous criminal couples. 

The Movie Take

The 1967 double-Oscar-winning film Bonnie and Clyde starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Some criticize it as romanticized, glorifying the couple’s cold-blooded crimes. 

In the film, they meet when Bonnie thwarts Clyde’s attempt to steal her mother’s car. But Bonnie’s mom said they met over a mug of hot chocolate at a friend’s.  Clyde was portrayed as impotent, but was actively heterosexual. 

Beatty invented this to give his film character more depth. However, Clyde really did chop off two toes in prison!  In the film, the gang are ‘Robin Hood’ types, stealing from rich banks, soft on ‘regular folk’. Yet, in truth, the gang’s main targets were small-town stores and saving banks. 

And, unlike real life - with the pair imprisoned for stints - the film takes place over one long, murderous spree.  But, like all retellings of this infamous due - their story ends the same. The couple die in a hail of bullets. 

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY MAY 23 Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde

On May 23, 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana.

Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. Shortly after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker visited him every day, and smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape, but he was soon caught in Ohio and sent back to jail. When Barrow was paroled in 1932, he immediately hooked up with Parker, and the couple began a life of crime together.

After they stole a car and committed several robberies, Parker was caught by police and sent to jail for two months. Released in mid-1932, she rejoined Barrow. Over the next two years, the couple teamed with various accomplices to rob a string of banks and stores across five states—Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and Louisiana. To law enforcement agents, the Barrow Gang—including Barrow’s childhood friend, Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Henry Methvin, Barrow’s brother Buck and his wife Blanche, among others—were cold-blooded criminals who didn’t hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way, especially police or sheriff’s deputies. Among the public, however, Parker and Barrow’s reputation as dangerous outlaws was mixed with a romantic view of the couple as “Robin Hood”-like folk heroes.

Their fame was increased by the fact that Bonnie was a woman—an unlikely criminal—and by the fact that the couple posed for playful photographs together, which were later found by police and released to the media. Police almost captured the famous duo twice in the spring of 1933, with surprise raids on their hideouts in Joplin and Platte City, Missouri. Buck Barrow was killed in the second raid, and Blanche was arrested, but Bonnie and Clyde escaped once again. In January 1934, they attacked the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail, shooting several guards with machine guns and killing one.

Texan prison officials hired a retired Texas Ranger, Captain Frank Hamer, as a special investigator to track down Parker and Barrow. After a three-month search, Hamer traced the couple to Louisiana, where Henry Methvin’s family lived. Before dawn on May 23, Hamer and a group of Louisiana and Texas lawmen hid in the bushes along a country road outside Sailes. When Parker and Barrow appeared, the officers opened fire, killing the couple in a hail of bullets.

All told, the Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers. Parker and Barrow are still seen by many as romantic figures, however, especially after the success of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.

[bxnnienc1yde]

Crossing Paths

Clyde met Bonnie through a mutual friend, and their friendship would grow quickly to what would turn into romance. It's not quite clear exactly how or when they met but, people say that they met on January 5, 1930, at one of Clyde's friends' house. Clyde was 20 at the time and Bonnie was 19. "Parker was making hot chocolate, while Barrow dropped by the house." People say that their feelings were obvious, and it was like "love at first sight". But of course, it would be interrupted by, an arrest of Clyde.

How the government failed to protect their prisoners:

Even back then, the government had many many flaws, I still think that the government gives little care or thought to their prisoners and no view of a second chance for them. During his imprisonment in Eastham Prison Farm, Clyde was repeatedly sexually assaulted. I do not think that anyone should go through this, victims do not ask for it and they do not wish for it either. Clyde got his justice by killing his assaulter with a pipe in the jail, although he did not take the death in his hands but left it to someone else to carry.

[authoralonwy]

I have so many opinions about these two human beings and, while some of them might be controversial, I’m not ashamed of them. Please keep in mind that I do not condone their actions. I simply believe that they weren’t the monsters people make them out to be.

I’ve researched Bonnie and Clyde extensively and what I am about to say comes as a result of that research. They did things that were admittedly horrible, but I don’t think that makes them horrible. When I look at this picture - as well as others - I see two scared kids and I think that is an accurate statement.

We know that Clyde Barrow didn’t have an easy time of it in prison. He was a small man, both in stature and muscle, and was barely out of his teen years when he was put in one of the worst prisons of that era. Clyde stood between 5′5 and 5′6 and was never more than 130 pounds. Eastham State Prison - which was nicknamed ‘The Bloody ‘Ham’ had a reputation. Prisoners were beaten and often overworked. Many people - including myself - believe that Clyde was repeatedly raped by an older inmate by the name of Ed Crowder. His family stated that it was like he’d ‘transformed from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake’ while in prison and this fits the bill of someone who had been repeatedly abused in some way. Now, even if he wasn’t raped, it’s highly likely that he was at the very least beaten. When he was finally released from prison, Clyde told people that he would die before being sent back and I fully believe that this was a driving force behind the ‘crime spree.’ He was terrified of being sent back to a place where he’d been tortured.

I think it’s easy to see Bonnie’s point of view. Bonnie was known to be a woman who valued loyalty. She stood behind the people she loved no matter what the circumstance and she loved Clyde. People who knew them speak of the love they shared and, to me at least, that speaks volumes. She was the type of woman who loved fiercely and that, at least, is something to admire.

And it wasn’t just Bonnie that was devoted to Clyde. Clyde was equally as devoted to Bonnie. After the accident in which Bonnie’s leg was ruined, Clyde risked his freedom - remember, he stated that he would do whatever it took to stay free - in order to make certain that Bonnie would survive. He remained near to her during her recovery - the start of which took place in Dallas where they were most wanted - and made no attempt at leaving her behind which is exactly what you’d think he do, right? But he doesn’t leave. He risks his freedom, taking part in small-time robberies to keep them afloat while she healed enough to be able to leave again.

While I don’t condone any of the lives they took, I don’t think they were guilty of as many crimes that were blamed on them. Think about it, the police had an easy scapegoat in Bonnie and Clyde. If a crime took place that they couldn’t solve, they could easily blame it on Bonnie and Clyde and the public would be none the wiser. I’ve spoken to quite a few people that agree with me here, so I’m not exactly special in this respect.

So, there it is. I could probably write a whole non-fiction book about this subject, but I’ll leave it here for now. Does anyone have anything to add?

#Bonnie and Clyde #bonnie parker #clyde barrow #controvercial opinion #my opinion

[oklahomie-archived]

Do you like Bonnie and Clyde? Can’t read enough about them?

I am working on a novel about the pair right now, as historically accurate as I can get it. I’ve been researching them for three years now and am starting to write my little heart out. 

I have 3 short stories and a flash fiction up on Amazon for $0.99 (the least amount they would let me market it as). They include Bonnie and Clyde first meeting, the Hillsboro murder, and Clyde’s time in Eastham prison. The weekend of Bonnie’s 108th birthday, Sept. 28-Oct 2 2018, these short stories will be free!

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[westdallasgang]

Clyde Barrow's hand-made belt and necklace he crafted in prison sometime around 1930-32 for his sister Marie.

#clyde barrow #eastham prison

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Covid-19: Prisons to require proof of vaccination for visitors

Covid-19: Prisons to require proof of vaccination for visitors

Corrections has introduced it would require visitors to prisons to be totally vaccinated towards Covid-19 earlier than 9 December. Prison fencing at Paremoremo. Photo: RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly In a press release Corrections in the present day introduced it would require all non-public visitors to prisons nationwide to have had their first vaccine earlier than 13 November and be totally…

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All Hands on Deck: Get Malik Washington out of Ad-Seg!

Comrade Malik | It's Going Down | July 4th 2018

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Kaiden’s Film Corner June 2021 - The Highwaymen

Kaiden’s Film Corner June 2021 – The Highwaymen

Our Article Sponsor Please Show Your Support A 2019 American period crime drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by John Fusco. The film stars Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as Frank Hamer and Maney Gault. In 1934, after two years on the run, criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow break several associates out of Texas’ Eastham Prison Farm. Texas Department of Corrections Chief…

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[bosskarun]

“Partner in Crime” of 1930s

Continuing from the last post, not only the Dillinger gang were famous back in the day. When we hear the phrase “partner in crime”, it metaphorically means close friends that would do anything together. Although, in the 1930s or the Great Depression Era had a different meaning. Back in the days, there was a couple who were considered as “partners in crime” as they would commit crimes together and risk their lives committing them. The name’s Bonnie and Clyde.

I am sure that you have heard the name Bonnie and Clyde before as they were famous for being a couple that committed crimes together such as murders, burglaries, and robberies. Although, both of them did not build a path for their lifestyles when they were children but let’s talk about their backgrounds.

Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910, in Rowena, Texas but moved to Cement City, Dallas after her father passed away. Bonnie was nowhere to be seen on a criminal path as she was an excellent student and always had been interested in poetry and literature. Before her life with Clyde, she had a dream to become an actress due to her beautiful appearance which was why Clyde fell in love with her.

Clyde Barrow was born on March 24, 1909, in Telico, Texas, and later moved to Dallas, Texas due to drought which made his family’s crops unable to grow. Clyde attended school until the age of 16 and had a passion for music, he learned how to play guitar and saxophone. His young life tends to be the same as Bonnie but no, Clyde got into the life of crime at a very young age because his older brother, Buck, influenced him with his lifestyle. Clyde and Buck began with small crimes like a small thief but somehow gradually to stealing cars and armed robberies. Clyde was already a fugitive by the age of 20 in 1929. Back to the lives of the couple, Bonnie and Clyde met in 1930 through their mutual friend. Back then, Bonnie was only a waitress but after being together for some time, their romance began and that is why Bonnie got herself into the world of crime and the Barrow gang formed. The gang committed several robberies and left citizens in fear until Clyde went to prison. On March 11, 1930, Due to Bonnie’s love toward Clyde, she was willing to smuggle a gun inside the prison where Clyde was held which Clyde used it to escape the prison along with his cellmates but was captured again a week later. Bonnie’s action was considered a hero for taking a risk of saving her lover and that was when Bonnie and Clyde had “fan clubs”. Although, Clyde was known as a little psychopath due to either his or his cellmate’s action of cutting off both of his toes to avoid labor work. In 1934, Bonnie and Clyde helped their member named Gurule at Eastham prison by using machine guns, possibly Thompson machine gun, to shoot at the guards to make their member entered their car and escaped successfully.

The Barrow gang was wanted by lawmen especially Bonnie and Clyde, they were wanted dead or alive. In 1934, Texas Ranger (picture above) recalled again after being disbanded and recruit more rangers. The operation was led by Frank Hamer along with his friend Maney Gault. The rangers never saw Bonnie and Clyde before until May 23, 1934.

On that day, Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana by officers including Frank Hamer and Maney Gault. Bonnie and Clyde were shot several times in their stolen Ford V8 by officers which were believed to be up to 130 rounds. The Texas Ranger probably would not want to spend any of their time longer looking for the couple. 

After their deaths, Bonnie and Clyde were buried separately even though they were believed to wish to believe together but Bonnie’s mother insisted.

Bonnie Parker was buried at Crown Hill Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas. 

Clyde Barrow was buried at Western Heights Cemetery in Dallas, Texas where his grave has an engraving said “gone but not forgotten”.

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This day in history...Bonnie & Clyde On May 23, 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana. Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. Shortly after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker visited him every day, and smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape, but he was soon caught in Ohio and sent back to jail. When Barrow was paroled in 1932, he immediately hooked up with Parker, and the couple began a life of crime together. After they stole a car and committed several robberies, Parker was caught by police and sent to jail for two months. Released in mid-1932, she rejoined Barrow. Over the next two years, the couple teamed with various accomplices to rob a string of banks and stores across five states–Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and Louisiana. To law enforcement agents, the Barrow Gang–including Barrow’s childhood friend, Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Henry Methvin, Barrow’s brother Buck and his wife Blanche, among others–were cold-blooded criminals who didn’t hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way, especially police or sheriff’s deputies. Among the public, however, Parker and Barrow’s reputation as dangerous outlaws was mixed with a romantic view of the couple as “Robin Hood”-like folk heroes. Their fame was increased by the fact that Bonnie was a woman–an unlikely criminal–and by the fact that the couple posed for playful photographs together, which were later found by police and released to the media. Police almost captured the famous duo twice in the spring of 1933, with surprise raids on their hideouts in Joplin and Platte City, Missouri. Buck Barrow was killed in the second raid, and Blanche was arrested, but Bonnie and Clyde escaped once again. In January 1934, they attacked the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail, shooting several guards with machine guns and killing one. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAhM9V_pA9J/?igshid=17l4s5ma8pf4d