There are certain names that are nearly synonymous with the "Public Enemy era" in the United States, marked by high profile lawlessness and organized crime. Some of these names include Al Capone, John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Baby Face" Nelson, and, perhaps most notoriously, Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow both grew up in the urban slums of West Dallas, where they met many of the later members of the Barrow Gang, including Floyd Hamilton, whose Winchester rifle can be found in Lot 3101. The infamous duo began their life of armed robbery and murder in 1932, beginning small, mostly robbing small businesses and gas stations. In August of that year, Clyde and Raymond Hamilton, Floyd's brother, were approached by two police officers at a country dance in Oklahoma, and the pair shot the officers, killing one and seriously wounding the other. This was the first law enforcement officer killed by the gang who eventually would kill a total of nine, setting them on a one way path leading them to their graves. A raid on their Joplin, Missouri, hideout in 1933 led to many personal photographs of the gang being posted in newspapers, skyrocketing them to national fame. After the raid, the gang roamed from Minnesota to Texas, stepping up their robberies to banks, and realizing that their newfound fame made keeping a low profile much more difficult for them. In 1934, the noose began to close around Bonnie and Clyde, having sprung some of their gang members out of Eastham prison in Texas and embarrassing the Texas Department of Corrections. The department turned to former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer to track down and apprehend the pair. In April, Parker, Barrow, and another gang member opened fire on two motorcycle patrolmen, killing both, and solidly turning the public's perception against them. These killings also led to large bounties being placed on the heads of both Bonnie and Clyde. Hamer had tracked the outlaws movements for months, found their patterns, and by May was ready to lay his trap in Louisiana. Hamer's posse of six set an ambush along Louisiana State Highway 154 and waited for hours, some even saying they waited a whole day. At around 9:15 am on 23 May, a Ford V8 approached at high speed, slowing down slightly to take the bait the posse had laid. Before the car stopped, Hamer's men opened fire, killing Barrow almost instantly and unloading their plethora of weapons into the vehicle. Bonnie and Clyde were both killed, bringing their crime spree to an end. When the posse searched the vehicle they found veritable arsenal including automatic rifles, sawed off shotguns, a plethora of handguns, magazines, and stocks of ammunition, much of which had been acquired in raids on National Guard armories. A crowd gathered with the spread of the news and quickly turned into a looting mob, many struggling to grab anything they could as a souvenir. A photograph included with the lot shows a man standing with a display of weaponry and ammunition that were recovered from the vehicle by law enforcement. Included documentation states that the BAR magazine, five bullets, and five casings in a stripper clip in this lot were items also recovered from Bonnie and Clyde's car. The documentation from Sandy Jones of the John Dillinger Historical Society indicates that they were originally held as evidence by the F.B.I., the magazine still having an F.B.I. identification number scratched on it, before they were moved to the Texas Ranger collection in San Antonio and later privately acquired. The evidence identification number scratched on the magazine appears to be "B432217", with another illegible number scratched on the opposite side. An included document from Newton & Newton Ltd. states that the .30-06 rounds were deactivated so they could be owned in the U.K. without a firearms certificate, and they are now included in the lot as five casings in a stripper clip with five loosely seated bullets. Provenance: The David Gainsborough-Roberts Collection