![]() ![]() Clyde told Buck that Bonnie might be dying and he had two lawmen to get rid of. After midnight Clyde finally arrived at the designated spot between Erick and Sayre, Oklahoma, where Buck and Blanche Barrow waited. After a few miles, Clyde stopped and put Bonnie in the back with Corry and Hardy where she lay across their laps. prodded the lawmen into the back seat of the Chevrolet the lawmen arrived in, put Bonnie in the middle of the front seat with W.D. thought she was reaching for a weapon and fired his shotgun, with several pellets inflicting nicks to one of her fingers.Ĭlyde and W.D. Gladys Pritchard Cartwright, worried that her baby might crawl out the kitchen door, reached up to latch the door. He took Corry and Hardy prisoners and Bonnie managed to get up and grab the lawmen’s guns. Hardy and Corry, having no idea they were dealing with noted criminals, walked into the dimly lit house to be confronted with Clyde and a Browning automatic rifle. to stay at the house while he went back to the wreck to salvage guns and ammunition.Īlonzo Cartwright sneaked away and drove into Wellington and alerted the Collingsworth County Sheriff George Corry and town chief of police Paul Hardy. Sallie and Gladys knew she needed a doctor but Clyde refused. Sallie and Gladys applied baking soda and Cloverine Salve to her leg which was severely burned by battery acid. Jack and Alonzo lifted her out and Jack carried her to the Pritchard house and laid her on a bed. were intent on collecting guns and ammunition and seemed to ignore Bonnie who was seriously hurt inside the vehicle. Alonzo and Jack pulled Clyde out through what had been the windshield, and then pulled out W.D. Jack, Sam, and Alonzo sprinted down to find the V-8 on its side in the water. The speeding car missed the detour, crashed through a wooden barricade, and plunged off into the river. Jones on their way to a rendezvous point near Sayre, Oklahoma, to meet Buck and Blanche Barrow. Jack told his father “the driver must be a darn fool.”ĭriving that maroon Ford V-8 was Clyde Barrow and with him were Bonnie Parker and W.D. About ten o’clock, they heard a speeding car approaching from the south at a high rate of speed. ![]() The family made ice cream and Sam and Jack took their bowls outside to sit on the porch. On the evening of June 10, 1933, the Sam Pritchard family, which consisted of Sam and Sallie Pritchard, their daughter and son-in-law Gladys and Alonzo Cartwright, and their son Jack and his wife Irene Pritchard, were visiting together at the Pritchard home, located about six miles north of Wellington, Texas, about a hundred yards from the Salt Fork River. By the summer of 1933 SH4 (later designated US83) was completed from the Childress County line to the Salt Fork of Red River but diverted to the old highway to cross the river on the 1910 bridge. One of the projects funded by The Works Progress Administration was the construction of State Highway 4 from the south to the north through Collingsworth County. ![]()
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