Guinn bases his description of the ambush on Sandy Jones's exhaustive 1998 inquiry and forensic reenactment. Before his death in July 1955, Hamer said the successful hunt for the couple was made after he learned their pattern of movements. [1][page needed] A less successful incident happened during the Sherman Riot of 1930, however. He left the Rangers again to become a range detective for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, commissioned as a Special Ranger. [19] The Texas Department of Corrections received national negative publicity over the jailbreak, which delighted Barrow, who thought that he finally had his revenge. “Once, after murdering two officers, Bonnie is said to have walked up to one of the dead men and took a c*** on his chest. [27] The lurid newspaper stories and the furor which they created increased the pressure on government and law enforcement to capture the criminals, and Governor Ferguson placed a $500 bounty on Bonnie for her alleged role in the murder of Patrolman Murphy. [20] Simmons said that he wouldn't presume to tell Hamer how to do his job, but he suggested that Hamer "put 'em on the spot, know you're right—and shoot everybody in sight. Barrow stopped his car at the ambush spot and the posse's 150-round fusillade was so thunderous that people for miles around thought a logging crew had used dynamite to fell a huge tree. [41][42] Former Governor Coke Stevenson hired him to accompany him to the Texas State Bank in Alice to examine the tally sheets for ballot box 13, which held ballots for his opponent Representative Lyndon Johnson which he knew to be fraudulent. He posted their names at the top of the Campbell murder warrants, issued against Barrow, Parker, and John Doe (Methvin) later that week. [39][40] He was also active the following year during the 1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike. The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. But the police refused him support and the Bankers' Association's position was that "any man that could be induced to participate in a bank robbery ought to be killed." Hamer asked Dallas County Sheriff Smoot Schmid to assign his deputy Bob Alcorn full-time to the case; Schmid sent Alcorn and Ted Hinton, another Dallas County deputy. Bonnie and Clyde were no Robin Hoods, as they’ve been portrayed. He was shipped serial number 10045; at least two Model 8s were used in the ambush. In 1953, Frank Hamer suffered a stroke; he lived two more years but never regained his health. He was put into towns to clear them up. [15] A year later, Hamer gave his reason for retiring: "When they elected a woman governor, I quit. He joined Captain John H. Rogers' Company C in Alpine, Texas, on April 21, 1906, and began patrolling the Mexican border. Ten shots were fired in the gunfight, and police collected a total of seven revolvers, two semi-automatic pistols, and three rifles from the two parties.[8]. Retired after a long and illustrious career with the Rangers in which he had risen to the rank of captain, Hamer was credited with bringing many outlaws to justice in the Lone Star State. [24], Hamer was tracking the Barrow gang's murders as well as the bank robberies. [34], Hamer used a customized .35 Remington Model 8 semiautomatic rifle with a 15-round magazine that he ordered from Petmeckey's Sporting Goods store in Austin, Texas. [35] The rifle was modified to accept a "police only" 20-round magazine obtained through the Peace Officers Equipment Company in St. Joseph, Missouri. He said, ‘You’re welcome to have the dinner but I won’t be there’. You can unsubscribe at any time. In the 1967 film, Hamer is seen being humiliatingly captured by the Barrow Gang before he then hunts them down for revenge. The guy in charge of the carnage, a Texas Ranger by the name of Frank Hamer, was not a subtle man. “He was brought up hunting and that is how he became a good shot. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. An eyewitness account gained widespread newspaper coverage, stating that a drunken Bonnie had emptied her gun into the prone body of Patrolman Murphy at Grapevine, laughing as she fired at the way that his "head bounced like a rubber ball" on the road. In the early 1930s, Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree generated vast media coverage which embarrassed law enforcement and government officials in a half dozen states. Sherman's black district was looted by the mob afterward, with the Rangers unwilling or unable to stop them. [11], In 1928, Hamer put a halt to a murder for hire ring, and his extraordinary means of accomplishing this made him nationally famous. The circle's anchor points were Dallas, Joplin, Missouri, and northwest Louisiana, with wider arcs outward for bank robberies. Two guards were shot by the escapees during the breakout, guard Major Crowson fatally. Hamer began his career in law enforcement in 1905 while working on the Carr Ranch in West Texas when he captured a horse thief. Hinton remembered Bonnie from the Dallas café where she had waited tables four years before. [31], State, local, and other sources had pledged money to the Barrow reward fund which brought the pre-ambush total to some $26,000, but most reneged on their pledges. The Texas Bankers' Association had begun offering rewards of $5,000 "for dead bank robbers—not one cent for live ones." He turned to mostly private investigation work – and so came the job of hunting down Bonnie and Clyde. All six, however, agreed that Deputy Oakley stood and fired the opening shot from his Remington Model 8, and that his bullet hit Barrow's left temple and killed the outlaw instantly. 20, No. He is credited with having killed between 53[14] and 70[45] people. He didn’t like the fuss. [10], Beginning in 1922 Hamer led the fight in Texas against the Ku Klux Klan as senior captain of the Texas Rangers, which was still growing in Texas, and he saved 15 people from lynch mobs throughout his career. Having his surname as a young boy was like being a celebrity. "[6] Hamer moved in at age 24 and enforced law and order. “She was no sweetheart who was roped in for the ride. His depiction of Hamer is the most genuine the lawman’s family has seen. In 1918, Hamer physically threatened State Representative José Tomás Canales, who was leading an investigation into Texas Rangers accused of abusing residents of the Rio Grande Valley. Frank Hamer was a legendary lawman/Texas Ranger. Hamer and Gladys and other family members were stopped at a garage on October 1, 1917 to get gasoline in Sweetwater when they suddenly encountered Gus McMeans of Odessa, Ed Sims' brother-in-law, and the Hamers and McMeans got into a pistol battle. Information about the device's operating system, Information about other identifiers assigned to the device, The IP address from which the device accesses a client's website or mobile application, Information about the user's activity on that device, including web pages and mobile apps visited or used, Information about the geographic location of the device when it accesses a website or mobile application. Parker, Emma Krause, Nell Barrow Cowan and Jan I. Hamer and a handful of Rangers were charged with protecting the trial of a black rape suspect, George Hughes, in the town of Sherman. An officer must know the habits of the outlaw, how he thinks and how he will act in different situations. It was just his work to him.”. Steele, Phillip W. and Marie Barrow Scoma (2000). It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. Hamer felt that he learned Barrow's statistics, but "this was not enough. "[21], Hamer examined the pattern of Barrow's movements, discovering that he essentially made a wide circle through the lower Midwest, skirting state borders wherever he could to take advantage of the fact that law officers could not pursue suspects across state lines. “An officer must know the habits of the outlaw, how he thinks and how he will act in different situations.

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