The Iowa Files presents: Bonnie & Clyde After Dexfield Park

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profession he's retired now but this gentleman is a passionate teacher of history and informing the public about all things that are amazing especially here in iowa rod first presented his program about bonnie and clyde in the shootout in dexter a couple years ago so now we're going to find out the rest of the story what happened in those 10 months between little entry little romance a little gore so with no further ado uh we are so proud to have our very first 2021-22 iowa files with mr stanley thank you yeah that's i don't know if i can live up to all this you know what you said but but anyway um i'm rod stanley i am a retired school teacher i taught for 35 years uh my last 17 i was in panora panorama i still live in panora i grew up in dexter where the shootout took place actually not in the town of dexter at the dexfield park since it has been two years i was telling gail i i don't know how much you guys know about bonnie and clyde and i don't know how much you know about the dexville park thing and i don't know how many of you were here and it's two years ago probably you probably wouldn't remember what i said back back then anyway but but anyway the dexfield park shootout was three miles north at an old amusement park in dexter in fact it was the largest amusement park in the state of iowa it was built in 1916 lasted from 1916 up to 1932 with a little bit of closure in between because of the depression that closed permanently bonnie and clyde in the shootout they were camped out at a campground at that old amusement park people back in those days like to camp out as much as people like to camp out today the only thing different was they didn't have the campers and things they had sleeping bags and tents and so on but there was a campground that was there and bonnie and clyde somehow knew about that campground and they had been involved in a shootout in platte city and they ended up at north of dexter at this dexville park spent five days there got caught i mean they there was a guy that came through saw their camp went to the local cop posse posse went out on a monday morning shot the hell out of him posse had one person wounded that day just one could have been a lot worse but all the members of the gang bonnie clyde w d jones buck and blanche all of them except blanche were wounded were shot up that day by that posse buck and blanche got caught the other three escaped they stole a car from a farmer by the name of valley feller that's where i'm going to start today and really you know i left out a whole lot of stuff but that was in the last program okay so this is basically where i'm going to start with the program today i just have to tell you before before i say anything else i don't want anybody sitting out here thinking that i'm glorifying these outlaws i always have to say this because i've had programs afterwards people come up and say rod why are you glorifying these people why are you glorifying two outlaws that killed 13 people nine lawmen they killed i'm not their story is an historical story it's part of dexter's history i tell you you won't believe how many people come to dexter iowa to my museum not mine but the borders museum and want to know about bonnie and clyde if it wasn't for bonnie and clyde nobody would come to dexter iowa i'll guarantee you that although we had a president live we had a president truman came there in 1948 in fact it was just the anniversary of that this weekend where he gave his first give him hell harry speech back in 1948 and jump started his campaign and he won the re-election when he wasn't supposed to but anyway but just let me set everybody i i i don't glorify him but they do have a story you can't hide history although being a history teacher not it's shame some of the stuff that's going on now kind of it bothers me and i don't know where people politically stand i really don't give a damn who where what but i just don't i mean it's you can't hide history you can't hide it it's got to be out there and people gotta say and bonnie and clyde's history it wasn't good i mean they were law they were they were law breakers they were trouble makers but anyway this story is going to take you from the time that they leave dexfield park they leave dexfield park get in that 1929 plymouth and drive down that lane and they they're on their way out they escaped with their lives that day like i said they were lucky in hell they were lucky they all got shot up badly that day they were wounded buck and blanche got caught buck and blanche got taken into dexter buck and blantz got treated by the two doctors in dexter dr osborne and dr chapler who had their clinic uptown they started practicing in 1933 they retired in 1982 they delivered me in 1950. so i'm 71 years old and dr osborne delivered me back in the back in 1950 but they'd worked on buck and buck and blanche buck was taken to king's daughter hospital i don't have a picture that i have a picture of that up here that maybe afterwards you can come up and see you ain't going to be able to see it back there but they had to take him up there because he had a bullet in his back and they couldn't operate on him in dexter so they took him to perry this hospital they operated on him and they found that it had nicked one of his lungs and lodged in his rib cage and they took the bullet out and he died five days later but he had a severe head wound from the platte city shootout where if anybody was here he got shot in the forehead and blew four inches of his skull off and they were treating that wound out at dexville park with peroxide okay they're pouring peroxide directly on it two inches lower bucks buck would have been dead but he wasn't and he was interviewed and he said yeah it hurts yeah i can control the pain with aspirin yeah i'm still smoking i'm still eating a meal yeah it's uncomfortable yeah you got four inches of your skull gone boy man but anyways but they took him to this hospital and five days later he died up there his family came up from texas picked up the body took him back to dallas and buried him in dallas his wife blanche was captured as well she was brought into dexter most of the pictures you see a blanche back in those days she has a big patch on her left eye that was when they were leaving platte city the police shot the glass out of the window and a big chunk of it landed her eye and bonnie and clyde were trying to get that i let that glass out but they couldn't get the big chunk out and they're taking little shards and things out but the big piece was in there dr osborne and chapper couldn't get it out either i don't believe i don't read anything about that but they took her to perry as well and they treated her at the hospital eventually she ended up in adel at the jail in adel they had no women's facility so they took her to des moines and they jailed her in des moines until the sheriff of platte county missouri came up and picked her up to take her back to missouri and they charged her here's the charge attempting to kill the sheriff of platte county that was the charge against her probably that was a bogus charge i don't even know she defended herself i never read anywhere where a lawyer even defended her and she was found guilty and she was sentenced to 11 years in prison in missouri she served i think about five of it she got out on good behavior she lost the sight in her left eye though from that chunk of glass but after she got out of prison she led the life of straight and narrow became a beautician remarried and died in 1988 she wrote a book before she died my right or my run with bonnie and clyde or something like that was the name we got it in the museum we sell it people buy it for 25 bucks a copy we don't make any money on it we sell it at cost but people like to read that i've read parts of it blanche is unapologetic she said i'd do it again i love buck barrel i did whatever he told me to do i don't know i mean that was that's that's just the way she was she said we were young and stupid we made stupid mistakes but she said i'd do it all over again but anyway so buck and blanche got caught the other three were on the run and they were wounded and according to wd jones here's my friend w d jones w d jones was 17 years old teenager he had been with bonnie and clyde for about he he lasted about eight months lasted about eight months and according to him and if you want to know about his story you can go online and you can find it i got a hard copy of it up here i ran off you can go up and you can find he gave an interview to playboy magazine in 1968 because the movie bonnie and clyde came out in 1967 and so playboy wanted to interview him and wanted to know yeah is that how's that movie match up with what they're you know and i don't think it matched up real well from the things i saw about it but but anyway but uh they interviewed him and he talked about his time with bonnie and clyde and how you know what went on and what went down the thing they one of the things they asked about was i don't know how many you saw that movie oh good you remember the character in there a little fella there's a little fella in there and i can't remember what his name was but anyway you always saw him messing with the car you always saw they had the hood up and his head was under there and he was he was messing around with the engine and messing around with things and they asked him they said did you work on the cars a lot and wd jones said no said the only person that worked on the car was clyde barrow and he said our lives depended on whether that car was going to run or not and he said the only thing i ever did i stole cars and i would drive a car if there was a second one but as far as ever you know tinkering with the engine there wasn't any way that i that i would do that but anyway wd jones was with the gang for like eight months and they were down in the state of mississippi and clyde had told well actually i better go back a little ways go back a little bit here but wd jones said that for the next six months or i should say for the next six weeks after the shootout in july they were like in six states they were hanging out in iowa a lot you're going to find out from the stuff that i'm going to give you today or tell you about today they hung out in iowa a lot you know why they hung out in iowa iowa friendly right we just got the friendliest people here right yeah nobody knew who they were they spent five days in dexter going uptown decks or buying stuff not one merchant including the town constable john love knew he he bought clothes off of john love if john love worked in the clothing store clyde went in and bought clothes bought the most expensive shirts there was and john lev looked at him didn't have a clue who he was probably if he would have went to the post office clyde's picture was there but how many people go into the post office thinking that there's going to be an outlaw in your town really probably not too many people but anyway you know he said that they were they were around the area for quite a while in fact there was they were worried about they were worried about bonnie and cl bonnie and clyden w jones coming to the hospital and trying to break buck out which i don't think they even thought about that when i started doing this program there was i talked to a couple a couple gentlemen a couple gentlemen came to me when i worked at i worked at dallas county conservation i worked at at the museum of forest park and i started doing this program from there but anyway i'm just going to read what he told me okay and this is this was like a week well actually a day after the shootout and i said this gentleman called me the other day at forest park his name was marion hanson he said he had some information that he and others had known about that i might be interested in he said on his 13th birthday on july 25th 1933 he and another fellow by the name of ralph ranam came across the car in a cornfield at what is now 330th and j in the mountain you guys know where bowton is east of perry between perry and woodward okay and that would have been the next day after the next park shootout he said he approached the car and he saw a man and woman sitting outside the car he said when they saw him coming the man jumped up and told him to get the hell out he did marion was pretty sure that it was bonnie clyde that day that's about seven miles from perry they were hanging out there they were hanging out it very well could have been because that was the direction they were headed and where they had stole another car marion also said one of his neighbors at the time was missing copies of newspapers they like to do that too out of his mailbox could these two storm uh q stone that just see what shape brother buck was in bounds just down the road from perry maybe they were thinking about getting buck out of king's daughter hospital and i told mary when he was still alive and he's passed since about telling me about this story there was another fella he didn't write it down though i was doing this at a assisted living and this guy's name was cliff james and cliff james i was doing the program about bonnie clinton he came up and he says yeah he said my dad we lived over south of woodward he said my dad one day went down about about this time frame went down to get the cows milk them he said pretty soon here he come back and some guy had a gun on him took him back up to the house and told him don't come down and get the cows until we leave he said it was clyde barrow so they they were in and around the area for quite a while and they according to wd jones they went from they were in and out of a lot of states at that particular time but wd jones like i was telling you he he spent like eight months with the barrels and they were down in mississippi and clyde told him they needed a another car they always wanted two cars when they were at dexville park they stole a car from a fella by name ed stoner and perry clyde love fords how many of you knew that you loved he loved fords and if he could steal a ford he would he wrote a letter to henry ford saying how great his car was if he was going to steal one and hope is one of his 85 miles an hour fast with the v8 that's the reason why he liked it it gave him an advantage there wasn't a policeman back in those days that had a card go over 50. so 85 and 50 or 80 and 50 or 60 and 50 you know who's going to win then if you did catch up with him then you had to deal with these other equalizer of course they left all their guns behind when they left dexfield park they had to they're going to kill they did didn't have time to pick them up and carry them out they left four browning automatic rifles you guys know you somebody some of you have to know about brownings those brownings are they're a military weapon 20 shot 20 shots and 20 shot clip in two and a half seconds with a 30 out six shell the posse found out real fast that morning when those great big tree branches were bouncing off their heads how powerful those brownings were lucky for them that clyde was shooting up instead of at them because all he wanted to do that day was get away but he had brownies and they had a cold 45 automatics but if you had a car fast enough to catch clyde he's probably going to blow the front end of your car off of that brownie because it would do that very easily because it was a military weapon but anyway so you know w.d jones they sent him into town to get a car he did except he kept right on going he didn't go back to the camp that they were at went home to texas and he got a job in houston texas that's where he was from and he worked there for a while and pretty soon one of his co-workers turned him in they turned him in snitched on him so they tried him they they they got him for attempted murder or being with clyde accessory murder when clyde killed one of these police officers that he killed and i think he got like he got like 15 years for that then he got two years for harboring clyde barrow so he had 17 years so this would have been in 1933 he went to prison he got out in 1943. okay he got out in 1943 on parole wanted to go wanted to go into the service it was during the warriors okay wanted to go in the service went to get his physical okay chest x-ray okay part of his left lung was gone you know where he lost it dexville park he got shot three times a shotgun in the chest he had a bullet in his lung as well i had a bullet there too needless to say he flunked the physical i don't know whether he told him where he where he got got all that garbage in his in his lungs but it was at dexville park because he got shot three times at least three times in the chest how come it didn't kill him that day 35 yards away probably light load like six shot in eight shot that's basically what they had if you ever want to come out to the dexter museum i got a gun that one of the posse members carried out there that day his name was joyce pitts i was tickled to death to get this gun because it was there you know how you know how hard those kind of things are to get something that was actually there and you have verification that was there you know what it was 4 10. that that doesn't mean anything you got something has to be somebody has hunted with a 410 before some of you are saying what well 410 big deal that sounds pretty big that's a small skate shotgun or one of the smallest gauges here he had 17 year old against the browning automatic oh yeah that's a great matchup but anyway we have that gun out there and and a lot of people like to look at it and like to hold it and like take up their picture taken with it because the gun was actually there that day but anyway you know wd jones married wife died got into drugs okay yeah evidently he was a romancer too because he liked to sleep with other people's wives he liked to do that too well i find it quite ironic how wd jones met his waterloo quite quite ironic he's at a house with another guy's wife husband comes home catches him in bed shotgun in the corner goodbye wd jones i find it quite ironic that he was killed by a shotgun when he had all that shotgun stuff that happened to him at dexville park that day okay move it up not talk too much that's bonnie and clyde right there move it up gail again that that picture there was bonnie's favorite picture of him holding her up going to move it up you know that's clyde with his sister i'll just tell you this clyde barrels family was very important to him and so was bonnie parker's that's the reason why they kept going about the only reason they went back to texas was because of their families that was the only reason they went back there that's uh clyde's clyde's two brothers or the br the one on this way is a brother this is a brother i think this is a cousin but that's lc i'm good friends with lc's son buddy barrel buddy barrel's the nephew of clyde barrel you want to hear some stories listen that guy has the stories about about clyde barrel move it on up there you got clyde and bonnie there with some of their cars moving on up all right here the first the first thing that i have well actually the first thing i don't have a picture of it up in november of 1933 like i said they're very close family lives they went back to texas to have a birthday party for clyde's mother and this was at sours texas which is outside of dallas but anyway someone got word of it and the police showed up and there was a big shootout that ensued bonnie and clyde both got shot but they escaped with their lives clyde was so upset about that that he decided that he was going to kill the sheriff of that county his name was smoot smoot schmidt was the name of the sheriff and clyde actually sat outside the office wanting i mean waiting to ambush this guy and he got talked out of it because of the problems it might cause for him if he's going to shoot a llama but he says you know i don't care if they shoot at us but when you start shooting at my family that's another story i don't want them doing that i think shoot all they wanted us and you know but don't shoot at my family but anyway then the next thing i have that happened that i thought was significant just let me say this before i go any further this i got most of the information that i'm telling you today that i've researched out of this particular book and if you want to you want to know about bonnie and clyde if you're really really interested in buying clyde this the book by because it takes them from from the one that met to the time they were killed it gibson and date by date by date there are a whole lot of things i didn't include in this these are the things i picked out that i thought you know would be interesting to talk about but anyway in january 16 1934 in huntsville texas eastern prison clyde spent time at eastham in fact in 1932 he was in prison and was sexually assaulted killed an inmate killed another inmate that was doing that to him supposedly bonnie and clyde's mother talked the governor into giving to a pardon clyde won't do anything bad anymore if you let him out well he will never do break another law well they got out and that's when bonnie and clyde got together for good and you know for on the run for for two years but anyway what clyde did here was he he went out and planted guns there were like five inmates in that prison that he wanted out five of his friends and on january 16 1934 they were out on chain the the duty going out you know they chained them up and they go out and and do work and so on and he put these guns where these inmates and he got the word into him it wasn't that hard to do where these guns were at and they they got the guns and they killed one guard and wounded another one and they got in the car of clyde barrel and clyde barrel had to drive like the devil in order to escape the the guards there but he escaped with five of his buddies and those buddies were ray hamilton you're going to hear more about ray hamilton henry methlyn you're going to hear about him hilton bybe you don't hear much about him james french not much about him and joe palmer those were the five guys that he broke out hardened criminals but buddies of clyde barrel okay next one back to iowa and again they they liked they liked these small town banks do you know why iowa you guys know where rembrandt i'm showing you where rembrandt is right there clear up in northwest iowa they get this one too we'll talk about that later rembrandt they get why why would they why would they pick on small town iowa no no police it's easy right it's easy because it was like dexter they had a constable during the night but during the day who's in charge when the constable is home sleeping in dexter we had a guy they called a day day marshall i remember his name was art clausen and he had a badge and he'd scare us kids walking around with his badge we didn't get close to art clelson but but anyway it was an easy mark it was an easy mark they could go into the bank nine o'clock in the morning when it opened up that's what they did knocked it off first national bank of rembrandt iowa they took three thousand bucks now you're gonna find out they took a lot of money often wonder what they did with all the money they took well they dressed well i know they bought a lot of good clothes but i think the majority of the money that they stole went back i think they i think they took it back to texas or sent it back to their families because it was during the depression you know but anyway the two people that were probably there were probably clyde and henry methane you're going to hear more a lot more about henry methane next that that takes that just shows you the way it was back then that shows you the way it is now the bank's not even there anymore but rembrandt's just a you know a drop in the bucket it's one of those places that maybe maybe 300 people that are there i put this one up poto and i don't know if i'm pronouncing that right hotel uh oklahoma because three days later they were back in oklahoma clyde they'd be in iowa then they'd be back in texas two days later then they'd be back in iowa or they'd be back in another northern state i just put on there how far it was and they did that in three days and the roads weren't that great they like traveling back roads but a lot of times they i've kind of figured out the main two roads they traveled a lot particularly at the northwest that was highway 71 and highway 169. i know that when they came up from platte city before the shootout at dexville park they came up 169 through mount air and up through that direction through adele and so on but anyway they robbed a bank in poto they got ten thousand dollars from this bank six thousand dollars in cash and like four thousand dollars in liberty bonds somebody was asking me yesterday about where would they cash the liberty bonds good question i don't know where they do that that's a good question i never even thought about that whether they had somebody else do it for them but anyway but they travel great lengths in the short length of time okay next one that's sort of the way that's what the bank that's what it looks like now i think that's the bank building these three characters right here clyde barrow on the left henry methvin in the middle kind of can everybody see it all right okay then ray hamilton hamilton and metham were the two main guys that you hear a lot of that ran with with with clyde i don't know whether it's because he trusted him the most or that trust is betrayed though you're going to find that out here shortly but those are the three the three amigos and you can see you know they got nice suits on they got nice hats on a lot of the money they stole they they dress well and they they they couldn't go to a restaurant and sit down and eat but they sure loved taking out takeout meals steak chicken whatever the most expensive was when they were in dexter they took out steak and chicken the the merchants said most expensive things but takeout was a little different back in those days real glass plates real glass glasses real silverware and in dexter they washed them up and brought them back i don't know about about some of these other places where they just kept them or not or whatever next one they were back in iowa again at a little place called canarum which is close to rembrandt um there was a fellow by the name of erneston that uh had noticed the the car in town kind of driving around kind of scoping things out and he went to the bank they told the bank the bank guy there's some there's some there's some people that look pretty rough in town you better be on the lookout for it well an hour later that was like at eight o'clock in an hour later clyde henry methvin joe palmer they robbed the bank and can hear him took took the money from there uh they got about three according to the thing about three thousand dollars and they also robbed a customer by the name of uh christopher george of thirty five dollars and a lot of times when they rob a bank if there were people online there's one coming up that people were in line at the bank and they robbed everybody going right up the count right up the counter took all their money took all their money but that's canaram in iowa 11 days later reed spring missouri now that's clear down in the southern part of missouri any people been in the southern part of missouri before how'd you like that ride down there it's terrible the only times i've been yeah it's that and that and it's like you're out in the boonies except i can take you some places in iowa in guthrie county where i live that you think you're out in the boonies too yeah monty monteith or dalmanutha you guys ever heard of downward moving down maneuver it was yeah yeah it was yeah she knows because she's on the underground river but at reed spring missouri there was one of the nine shootouts and bonnie and clyde were down there they had stolen a car up here in springfield and they were driving around and they got lost down there and they came up there was a farmer in a field and they stopped and took the farmer hostage his name was joe gunn gun choke gun that's quite a name for riding with bonnie and clyde but the story he told he was scared to death but anyway uh he they picked him up because they wanted to know how to get out of there where where to get to what they wanted to get to and so he showed them how but in the meantime the word had gotten out that they had stolen a car in springfield and they put up some roadblocks and this farmer joe gunn said they had the roadblock and all of a sudden the shooting the bullets started flying he said he dived down in the back seat he says lucky i didn't get killed but he said there was a big shootout one of nine shootouts that bonnie and clyde were involved in they were involved in nine major shootouts and they escaped with their lives and down the road they let joe gunn out and they did this more than one time they did this one one time they let him out thanked him for his time and trouble and gave him ten dollars for your trouble and joe said i almost got killed for my trouble next one this is uh ranger and i put this up here because you know when they left dexfield park i'm going back here a little bit they left all their guns four brownings four brownings 40 colt colt 45 automatics and 3 000 rounds of ammunition 3 000 rounds they have any guns they went to platteville illinois and robbed an arsenal there to replenish their supply stealing the brownings and colt 45s this is ranger texas and there was an arsenal there an armory there that was the old army right in that building and they stopped there and they stole their automatic weapons there too i don't know why they thought they needed more i guess i don't know for sure what the reason was but i wanted to show you that because that's again an edge clyde thought that he had to have next one yeah easter sunday april 1st 1934 the this event that happened here probably you know the there were a lot of people lots of people that thought bonnie and clyde were okay he they they thought that you know here here we have two robin hoods robin banks that took all my money that's okay i don't care because they took all my money they can take what money is what's left you know but they looked at him as robin hood giving them gonna give that money to the poor now that's not gonna happen but there was a lot of people that thought bonnie and clyde they they they aren't as bad as you people are making them out to be okay but anyway on this date in april easter sunday 1934 they were actually parked on a dirt road off the main drag and there were three motorcycle cops that drove by the last two guys saw the car and so they went off on this dirt road to investigate what was going on okay and they were just parking their motorcycles and they got gunned down in cold blood okay here's here's a story that i read about what happened there according to bonnie and clyde and henry methvin was there but anyway they were in the car bonnie had her rabbit she had a rabbit that she carried around an easter rabbit okay they were in the car resting and henry method and saw these two guys come up on motorcycles and he's told clyde he said there's two cops coming what do you want to do and clyde said take him clyde some people think clyde meant let's take him hostage henry methmen took it as open season on these two guys they didn't even got off their motorcycles and henry methane or clyde or both gunned them down in cold blood then the story got out the story got out about bonnie got out of the car then and bonnie walked up to one of the officers who was still struggling on the ground with a shotgun put it on his chest and blew him away i don't think that happened i just i don't think that happened i think that was made up to and i'm not defending bonnie that i think it wanted they needed something to turn the public against bonnie a woman how could a woman do something well she just did because there was a there was a witness in the in the field over here that saw her do it that was what they said there was a farmer that was over here a witness that saw her do that personally i don't think so maybe she did but i don't think she did wd jones i'll go back to wd jump wd jones said he never saw bonnie ever shoot a gun at the time he was with him was he defending her maybe i don't know i know she shot a gun in joplin there was a big shootout there and wd jones was with her maybe he was too under fire i don't know but he said that blanche and bonnie never shot a gun the whole time that he was with him and that was eight months i don't know whether he did or not but anyway great grapevine things turned um turned the other way next one yeah those are the two police officers that got killed that day ed wheeler is the top one and hd murphy and they had just started this job they were like on their like their first week job next one april 6 five days later in commerce oklahoma i gotta ask this this audience this what else is commerce known for any baseball fans in this room no baseball fans no baseball fans no no baseball fans and probably the greatest yankee slugger not babe ruth in my day in the 50s and the 50s and the city there you go mickey mantle mickey mantle's from commerce oklahoma there you go good job sir but it has nothing to do with bonnie clark i know so i'm sorry sorry sorry just trying to lighten the thing but what'd you say possibly because he worked and then in a i forget what the industry was there it was some kind of mining of something that was really really harmful to the lungs and stuff and uh i don't think mick had to do much mining because he was so good in baseball but but anyway in commerce oklahoma they were parked roll it up again you can see where commerce is in the northeast corner okay at this corner bonnie and clyde had parked and the town constable calvin campbell and the deputy uh his last name was boyd percy boyd i believe and they were there and and the constable was walking up to the car and somebody stuck his shotgun out blew him away before he got the car and then this guy exchanged gunfire and he got wounded and bonnie and clyde picked him up picked him up put him in the car and away we go held him hostage although they treated him pretty well they they treated his wounds they shot him and then they treated his wounds bought him new clothes and then drove around and asking him questions about you know who we are you ever read anything about bonnie and clyde they wanted to know about you know want to know about themselves and i don't know what he's told them but they went all the way up into the northwest they had him for like 12 hours they went all the way up to the northwest corner of oakland or northeast corner of oklahoma a place called fort scott and they dumped him off gave him ten bucks gave him ten dollars and said okay here's your bus fare back and before he got out he says is there anything that you want me to tell your public and he and bonnie says yeah and i don't have the picture up there to show you but and one one of the most famous pictures of of bonnie bonnie was her standing with her foot on a car bumper smoking the cigar and she said told this guy she says you tell you tell the public i don't smoke cigars that was the only thing she said to tell the public but anyway next one and you can see where all this commerce was here fort scott was all the way they took him all the way up there into that part i should say it's fort scott kansas was in oklahoma sports got kansas next one this i put this on here because ray ray hamilton uh was still running with the and this was a bank that he robbed after he left the gang and i'll tell you more about that here in a second but he robbed the bank and he got caught here and he got sent back to prison and ray hamilton give me the next one you know that's what's there today next one right there yeah okay everybody see that all right that's that that was ray hamilton's girlfriend married girlfriend her name was mary o'dare and bonnie and clyde just hated her just despised her because she was always conniving making passes at clyde one thing always wanting more money one wanted to drug clyde so they could steal his money and he she was just overbearing and finally they asked ray hamilton and her just get get the h out here we're done with you we don't want anything more to do with it and they did and then they stole a car and then they went to that bank that i just showed you tried to rob it and they got caught which tells you uh ray hamilton wasn't too smart clyde was kind of the brains of the operation but that mary o'dare was she was no good she was still married and stuff and and it didn't make any difference those two are the hamilton brothers that's ray hamilton the one that always runs he floyd hamilton was with clyde some but not much ray hamilton had an appointment with old sparky some of you're shaking your head yeah the other one's saying what the hell's old sparky old sparky was the electric chair because he got charged with the murder of one of these when he was with with the barrel gang and he met his waterloo through uh electrocution but those are the two brothers in jail they met each other after ray got caught floyd was already there next one gail there we go roll it up a little bit more there we go good april 16 1934 back in iowa this one i know quite a bit about uh in stuart i i have taken lots and lots of people over that over to this site and it's changed a little bit they do have they have a sign a better sign than that and then they have a plaque on the side of it that you can if there's no one there to talk to you and there won't be unless you call me go over there and take you over there it's interesting because i started doing that and the stewart like the people that were in charge of the commerce and and chamber of commerce and all that saw me over there and saying what are you doing and doing this and this and this about bonnie and clyde and they kind of got into this body and clyde thing and they're they're actually trying to purchase a car now i don't know what they're going to get it's going to be a 30s type of car they're going to put it over here on the side of it and where people can pose they're gonna have like things of things of bonnie and clyde where you can stand you can stand next yeah or you can stand on it and look at it and it's a cool light it's a great idea i wish i would have thought of it but it's a great idea but anyway that you know bonnie and clyde were back in stuart iowa in april 16 1934 it's interesting because they stopped for for gasoline down on highway 6 which was the main drag across iowa at the miller's standard station and the guy that was running the station mr miller uh was kind of i mean he these guys wouldn't roll their windows down i mean they put the money through you know didn't want to be seen and this and that and so on and it was kind of i mean yeah it's kind of interesting that he was kind of like i wonder who these guys are and he looked at the license plate of the car and that that car that they had was a 19 brand new car 1934 pontiac on the plaque it says it's an oldsmobile and i would argue with anybody in stuart that put that plaque up that wasn't an oldsmobile it was upon it because i got a picture of clyde with the pontiac and my book at that same time but anyway had a license plates on it and you know back in the day when i was growing up and probably some of you here too the county number every county had a number adair county was one polk county was 77. dallas county was 25. guthrie guthrie county's 39 but anyway so he was looking at he was eyeballing this and seeing these people that were in there and on the license plate it was get this it was iowa plate which clyde had a whole stack of plates about this high i get a picture if you want to come up and look afterwards in my book that on the death car a whole stack of them depending on what's let's see we're going to be in iowa okay let's take those plates off let's put the iowa plate but anyway this iowa plate was number 13 was the county number that's calhoun county and then the next four numbers get this number one number two number three number four it was one two three four how easy is that to remember okay but this guy saw and then just a lot of people in stuart saw driving up and down the streets kind of driving around so on i think probably clyde was there a year previous or like in 1933 when they were at dexville park i think he was there and i think he cased that bank out then i'm surprised he didn't case out the dexter bank but maybe maybe he did maybe they were going to come back later for the dexter one if they had a chance but anyway so they decided to that you know that they were going to take this bank and they parked their car roll it up a little bit gail okay whoa well you see where this yellow white van is that's where bonnie and and clyde and henry methvin was with them parked the car henry methmen and clyde got out of the car left bonnie there walked up then walked down the street east walked all the way down walked back okay there were a lot of people that saw that one two three four car walk back went into this store right here it was a drug store or i guess a restaurant or a drug store and they went in there and they bought two cokes and the guy said that they smelled of alcohol which they could have very well been but they drove two cokes they walked across the street to the bank right here this was when it right after it opened and the way they went their mo when they robbed a bank was this and most i've read this in several different accounts they'd go in clyde usually would go to the counter 20 bill tell the teller i want to change for 20. pull this little thing out get the change out put it up gun point at your head we're going to take all your money sir right now and that's the way it went down in stuart it went down in stewart that day henry method and clyde were in the bank there were three people in there that's what the bank looks like today that's the vault the vault is still there and you can yeah you they let people in i've taken people over in the there's a hair styling place now there and when i go over there sometimes it's open sometimes it's not when it is open i just go in and say can we go look at the vault and say go ahead go ahead i got to tell you this there's one guy that i took over there and he was from england he he planned his vacation about coming to dexter iowa from england cross it on a boat he's a stand-up comic that's what he did for a living was a stand-up come came to dexter we went i took him over there the shop was open and he said how cool would it be for me to get my hair cut and i tell all my buddies got my haircut caught where clyde barrel robbed the bank and so the guy the lady cut his hair and he was just thrilled that you know they got his hair cut and this that's that's the way a lot of these people are when they see this stuff it's like god we're thrilled to see this and i mean it's yeah the i don't quite understand it but anyway but roll it up this fella right here was the clerk his name was harold cronkite and harold cronkite and lucille lidden and the bike best president was in there and they put them all in the vault and they told them not to come out they didn't shut the door to lock it there was actually two vaults uh clyde took all the money had a red and white bag sprite bag they said they that day um clyde took all the silver took the cash put them in wanted to get into the other vault and harold cronkite said it's time lock can't open clyde took his word at it and uh they left this guy he was the funeral director of stewart at that time his name was glenn buffkin and glenn actually opened the door for bonnet for clyde and henry mefflin to run out down the street so glenn people kidding about that hey you got you let him get away you know he opened the door up for him in this case but anyway they clyde uh bonnie came up in the car and they jumped in clyde got this wheel they took off south out of stuart onto highway six now there's a fella by the name of sand carlin curlin and it's interesting because roll it back you know this building right here sam carl had a he was a had a photography shop and that's where that's where he worked and bonnie was actually parked right there and sam carlin was a the head of the vigilante group the guy that ran down outlaws in stuart he walked right by bonnie and he never lived it down according to the article he never lived it down because you know bonnie was sitting right in the car and you walk right by her and she was that there's that outlaw of course he didn't like again they didn't know who they were but anyway but sam carlin and his buddies took off after him sped through dexter they went south out of dexter you guys know where pitzer's at some of you're shaking your head no some are saying what you're making this up rod right you're making up the town the town of pitzer it's on the we call it the pitzer road but it was like a little ghost it's like it's a ghost town used to be a grocery store and stuff there and they hit it that way and they had a flat tire they pulled off the side of the road and this family came in and talked to me one day the the in the in i bone family o d o e n um bowden his name is in in the grandfather's name it was his name was ed emboden and it stopped by their house he said he saw this car come up and pull off the road they had a flat tire he said i was going to go down and help him and he said then i saw a guy with a rifle or not a guy but a woman with a rifle on top of the car he said i don't think i'm going to go down there and help them you know of course it was bonnie on the lookout but you know they got away that day with like 1500 bucks from stuart but the one two three four license plate was you know people recognized it um roll it down again you roll back down yeah okay i put this on here because they this is the house of the the person they stole their last car from this was in uh like in april april 29 1934 they stole their last car and of course it was a ford a 1934 ford a real fancy ford that they stole from the jesse warren family in in topeka kansas that was that was what it would look like and it was the v8 ford and it was pretty fancy it's interesting because they had just bought that car and it had like 1200 miles this was the death car too this was a car they were killed in and the speedometer when they stole at 1200 miles the speedometer when they got killed in may 24th 7 800 miles a lot of miles clyde was always on the road and and clyde never he knew one speed fast because it was harder to get shot bro you were well known may third back in rob iowa bank in everly iowa everly's up roll it up that's that's what it looked like back in the day up there that's what it looked like look like now those were the three people go ahead there it kind of gives you an idea from topeka kansas to everlay iowa and again probably when they were up in northwest iowa probably case this place out as well okay keep going there you go all right may 23rd 1934 ambush at gibson and bonnie and clyde were killed that day there's three of the the people that were in the posse what actually happened they were they were staying at henry methvin's dad's house his name was ivy methvin and ivy methlyn actually called the texas authorities and said if you if you pardoned my son henry metham was probably responsible for i'm thinking probably four or five murders not all in texas though there was some in oklahoma too but anyway you pardoned my son for what he did i'll deliver bonnie and clyde because they're staying on my property and they were there was a house at first i thought it was this house that's not the one but it wouldn't look something like that but that's not the actual cabin that they lived in here the guy that wrote the book he was looking for what remained of the house where bonnie and clyde stayed when they were on the meth and property but anyway they they hire basically roll it up just a little bit you know this guy frank hamer i don't know if you ever heard of frank hamer before a mean dude let's just put it that way he was a killer himself from the things i've read about frank hemer i mean he never killed anybody that wasn't mean guilty i mean but it's like he it seemed like he liked to do it he liked to kill people but anyway uh for some reason some of the movies here recently show frank hamer and clyde beryl in knowing each other and i don't know about that for sure where they actually knew each other this bob alcorn was a dallas county he was a dallas county uh deputy under smoot schmidt and a couple of these were locals rolled up just a hair this ted hinton is a well-known guy uh he he's actually written he wrote a lot he wrote a lot about the the ambush and the in the killing of them but anyway these three gentlemen were kind of put in charge with frank hamer and they went down to where ivy methvin's home was outside to get like eight miles southwest of gibson and it was only one road in to it it's only one road into it and they they got the brush and the trees and basically after they knew what car clyde was in with that a tan tan v8 ford that they were going to wait and say if he was there or not they had seen had reports they had seen him in town and they were driving back and forth and so they went out there and they set the first night nothing second night nothing they were getting packing their stuff up and they decided to stay a half hour more and this was like at 9 30 in the morning they were they were getting ready and the ski they said i just read it before i came in here the mosquitoes all over the place you know just getting bit bit terribly but anyway they hear a car coming and alcorn was on the end from where the car was coming where the the on the road and alcorn was actually on that posse because he could identify clyde barrel that was one of the main reasons well to make sure it was clyde they were going to be shooting at okay and here comes clyde 100 miles an hour and passed that car to go they had actually in order to get clyde to slow down ivy methmen's truck and you see this in the movie the one part of the movie that is accurate is they did have a truck that they parked on the side of the road jacked it up took the wheel off and made it look it was and it was ivy methods and clyde would know that because no one ivy so that clyde would slow down because it was going to be hard to shoot him going 80 miles an hour okay and get this ivy methvin went along with it and then he comes down like like 45 minutes before clyde shows up and tells this posse i don't want to do this now i want my truck back and these guys saying hey no way but ivy was saying if you don't kill clyde guess what he's going to kill me so they took they actually took ivy met according to ted hinton in his account they took ivy methvin and they took him like a half a mile away from the where they were at somebody took him up there real quickly handcuffed him to a tree so they couldn't come down and and warned clyde that an ambush but anyway so there they were and here they said clyde coming and bob alcorn says it's clyde that tan tan ford and clyde starts to slow down because of the truck and bob alcorn comes out steps up and hollers at him to stop halt and he said and the other one said that basically they saw clyde reaching and he was reaching for a browning that was in between him and bonnie but anyway that was enough they had browning automatic rifles 120 shots basically into that car with that then bob alcorn had an automatic shotgun five shots then he had pistols emptied the pistol in and all of them had that same i mean all of them um i think like 176 shots clyde was killed instantly got shot in the head right behind his left ear bonnie didn't go down as easily though bonnie went down screaming according to frank hamer hinton but when the car was still moving alcorn said he jumped out and he was shooting the car as it's still going down the road he said they are they going to get away again and pretty soon the car started to slow down and swerving went off into the ditch he wasn't going anywhere but they thought god didn't we hit him is that lucky but anyway so um they pretty much wiped him out roll it up now there's clyde like i said he got killed instantly with a head shot roll it up a little bit more there's bonnie ted hinton actually went down actually went down and picked up bonnie out of her seat there's another story out there that frank hamer went down there i don't think he did this it's a good story though went down there and bonnie was still gasping and pulled his pistol out finished her off that makes a good story and nobody would have said anything about it ted hinton commented about bonnie was hit so many times it just she was she was four nine ninety five pounds you know what a 30 odd six shell tears you to bits that's what he said it just i mean he said he felt sorry for him he felt sorry for clyde too but anyway um roll it up but they were killed on that morning are we out are we out there that's them checking out taking the stuff out in my book it talks about all the stuff that was in that car clyde saxophone played the saxophone had that in there stack of plates i don't have a picture of the plate you can come up look in the book roll it up they took him to arcadia louisiana to the mortician there and they had trouble embalming the bodies because there was so many bullet holes 20 the coroner said 20 at least 25 shots in each body that's the death certificate 10 000 people showed up at arcadia unless they found out the souvenir hunters galore at the shootout site shoot at dexter at dexfield park there are 400 people that went out to dexville park picked up stuff that's the reason why i can't find anything that's the reason why i can't find any 30-ought six-shell casings because somebody from dexter has them they took them back to dallas texas separate funerals they wanted they want actually they thought they'd bury them together they're still a big controversy i i don't have time to tell you about that there's still a big controversy about that they're still trying to get bonnie and clyde buried in the same cemetery in the same 50 000 people showed up heroes villains folk heroes criminals but anyway that's one at one of the funerals or one of the visitations i said that's the death certificate for clyde i believe that kind of tells you i don't know i i hope that kind of tells you a little bit about what happened after they left dexfield park and some of the things that went on with them and it's an interesting story to me but it was the end of an era when they got killed that's for sure you guys have any questions you want to ask me about this man can you tell us okay [Music] it says it's on the trail of monty and clyde then and now we have them in the dexter museum they're hard to get we have a heck of a time getting them and they've gone and it's an expensive book um we charge 125 in the museum and that's our cost we don't make a one cent on them not one cent but and i've sold three or four this summer there are people out there that take my word for it and it's it's a good book there there's a whole lot of books out there though about bonnie and clyde but you have some of them i don't know i don't believe from the stuff that i've read [Music] my t-shirt this actually this this issue actually came from texas from the prison yep i might one of my friends board friends doris feller sure and her husband went down and visited and they thought of me when they saw bonnie and clyde and so they bought me a shirt we do have shirts at the dexter museum for 20 dollars and they're a damn good shirt yes it has about the dexville park it's got four four pictures from the shootout i mean from the they took that day um the other thing that we just got last year we we got a camera that there was a fellow by the name of oscar wiseman was his name and he was a polk county deputy and his granddaughter had this camera and she called me up or called and she called me up too and want to know if i won this camera because they had this she said my uncle or my grandpa was in the posse out there this is a camera that he took pictures with and the very famous picture is the picture of that shows blanche standing in the background and buck is they have him laid down in front of the car and there's a whole bunch of people there and she said that he said he took that picture and i said really and he didn't get credit for though the guy from the des moines register by the name of herb schwartz got credit for it and he won a pulitzer prize but he went to his grave telling his family because he had a picture he had the picture in the case saying i took that picture that day i took a pic that picture and i don't know whether the register took it from him this was a glass negative picture unfortunately there were no other pictures for that he took that day so i don't know what happened to that yes sir i think i've even seen a documentary upon it or something maybe on iowa public broadcasting but what happened to the guns because the guns became kind of a thing like okay that's like a treasure in itself for a collector or whoever and that many all of a sudden they're all gone let me tell you what i think what i work for [Music] i i'll tell you i'll tell you this okay i i asked that when i was working at forest park in perry i i wanted to know what happened to him there was a fellow i ran into i was doing a program not about bonnie and clyde but he was friends with the dallas county sheriff back in like in the 40s and the 50s the dallas county sheriff was a guy by the name of evan berger and evan berger was in he was in the posse that day he was actually on the bridge guarding the bridge over the south raccoon river in case they got a car and they tried to go across it but anyway he said i used to go play cards with evan berger the sheriff in the dallas county jail okay and he said one day we're playing cards and he said evan said do you want to see the guns we took that day from bonnie clyde and this guy his first name was dick i can't remember his last name what says well yeah let's look at him and he brought out a whole big thing of guns okay so fast forward so i called dallas county sheriff you have the guns what are you talking about i call the des moines police department got the guns at bonnie clyde that you guys picked up that day bonnie and clyde who are they no i'm serious and i don't know if they're on a shelf somewhere but or like you were talking about here you go that gun was taken from you know the the brownian automatic rifles that were in the car out there went back to the arsenal how much time do you guys want to hear this are you done with me if you want to you i mean but anyway we are short okay i just want to tell one there clyde clyde when they escaped from the law how much are we short in time i'm way over there okay but anyway at that shootout that day there was a fellow by the name of cole spillers and he his house was on the other side of the river and clyde barrel came up alongside the river came up alongside the river and cole spiller saw him come up alongside the river he went up to the bridge and he exchanged gunfire with these two guys on the bridge evan berger everett plays came back but he saw this guy toss a rifle into the weeds coal spillers went down it was a browning automatic rifle so you've got a 19 year old kid got a browning automatic rifle cole spillers is walking back goes to the road walking back to his house cole spillers is a bullshitter likes to stop and talk to people he was that way when i knew him in dexter and he stops and talked to somebody and said look at this gun and that guy says that's a fantastic rifle son but guess what you don't get to keep it if coal spillers would have kept his mouth shut and walk back to his house with that browning illegal as hell to have it but you know how much that gonna be worth half a mil i used i i used to take i knew a guy at the dci i started doing this program i knew that he had a brownian that they confiscated they got donated from fort dodge called him up says hey i'm doing a program about clyde barrel and you like brownies can i borrow that right can i bribe it he said heck yes so the dci i go down there and i borrow this browning and carrying this browning around with me these programs not thinking you know god rod if you get stopped by the highway patrol you know what you know what you know how much trouble you're in how much trouble you're in he had a thompson too i carry this thompson clyde barrow never touched thompson browning yeah thompson no but anyway i was asking i was asking him how much that browning is worth and it had no get this the serial number was scraped of it the bear the barrels were in fort dodge in 1933 right around this time before they the dexville park thing would they have lost a browning up there i called the fort dodge police chief i said you remember that brownie you gave to the dci yeah what's the history i don't know it's here when i got here you know so that's all he knew about it but the serial number had been scraped off of it but that gun's worth a hundred grand the thompson was worth 75. so i was carrying around like 200 000 worth of guns you know but uh to answer your question i think they got distributed amongst yes sir this is more i've seen your other presentation on this obviously people come to wherever it is they go toward the sites what do you think the meaning of the bonnie and clyde story is for this country why do you think it fascinates people the way it does number one they're outlaws and it was during an era when there was outlaws john dillinger shin gun kelly baby face nelson people idolize them as well second thing they were male and female you didn't see very many male and female third thing they were young clyde was 23 and bonnie was 22. i think that's the reason why people that the male and the female thing i think is the big thing but you know i belong to like five or six different bonnie and clyde groups that have thousands of people and there there are people that know a hell of a lot more about it than me i mean i think i know some things but there's some stuff i don't know i mean the dexfield park thing is the thing i know the most about but that be my answer i don't know ratted that yeah did his son get pardoned yes he got pardoned for what he did in texas but he committed the murder to in oklahoma so he went to jail but he got out in the 40s sometime but get this you know what happened to him they found him dead along the railroad tracks ran over by a train cut in half that's what happened to henry and the methmen family blamed the barrels henry methvin henry methane was probably at his house that's where i'm guessing but you know i just read an article about ray hamilton that one guy was talking about ray hamilton he was going to rap them out too he had been getting information from wherever and why he was in prison and they were actually going to take him to louisiana to show him where clyde barrel was at clyde barrow and ray hamilton had a big falling out i mean they became bitter clyde said if i ever get into prison again i'm gonna kill you but clyde was never gonna go to prison they already made that pack bonnie and him said both said we're going down together bonnie wrote a poem on may 5th about we're going down together we're not going back we're not going back we're not going to prison we'll get killed before we go to prison clyde i mean clyde said i'll never go back now i'm way over [Applause] your first program which we were not able to videotape so how does somebody find out where you are and what topic you're talking about that's that's you can go you can actually go to the the museum website i mean my my name my email and my my phone number i i like to have people come to the museum and i can tell them the story there and we got all the artifacts and all kinds of all kinds of stuff to look at i mean as far as kind of then then i can take i can take people out to the site um what's whatever the date of october the second saturday in october and i know iowa football and iowa state football runs into things but the second saturday in october i open the museum at 10 o'clock in the morning to one and then if anybody wants to go out to the actual site to where the shootout was i take them out there and we have two historical markers at the bottom of the hill then i usually take them over to stuart so but if you don't want to do that you can call me up my name my name and my number is out there and if i'm free i'll take you if i'm doing something you'll have to have to schedule another time but it's it's pretty cool we're open on sundays from one to three if you want to come when i'm there it's the first sunday in october it's my life that's be our last that's our last month but like i said if you want to come out some other time just call me or email me or get a hold of gail and she can get a hold of me so but anyway but anyway thanks thank you again i really appreciate it speaking of museums being open look at that segway jordan house museum is open on fridays and sundays for tours 11am and 1pm we highly recommend you pre-purchase tickets so we know you're coming so maybe we can make cookies or something um if you come see us we have a brand new outdoor um fundraiser that we're really proud of the pathway to history where people are purchasing uh engraved papers uh to remember loved ones who have passed or important events it was just installed last friday so please come to the jordan house at 2000 monthly road and see it there's kind of an example back there and the order forms you can order that online or um on paper i'm not sure what the technical term for that would be um there's also the rest of the iowa file schedule is back there on that table too so uh we have october 17th is our next program vanished villages iowa ghost towns again we will be live streaming it both through youtube and on our facebook page and um we also have a sign up sheet back there get on our email newsletter i don't sell it to anybody i promise i could make good money but i don't um and we send out monthly newsletters to let you know what we're doing and what's going on because we like to brag but all awesomeness so it is the west des moines historical society so thank you so much and have a good rest of your day
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Channel: West Des Moines Historical Society
Views: 38,748
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Keywords: West Des Moines, West Des Moines Historical Society, Iowa Files, West Des Moines Public Library, Iowa, Bonnie & Clyde, Dexter, Dexfield Park, shootout, Jordan House, WDMHS
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Length: 83min 48sec (5028 seconds)
Published: Tue Sep 28 2021
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