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an offensive odor that it was with the utmost difficulty that one could remain within several feet of him." He agreed with Deputy Red
Salyers that he had shot and killed Marshal Humphrey in Arkansas. He was able to chat with the doctor, who asked him, "Where are you wanted by the law?" "Wherever I've been," replied Buck.
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Lawmen visited him in the hospital to get his final statements. Though doctors kept him numb with opiates, they also injected him with stimulants at least twice, so that he might answer questions. "Due to the lack of medical attention," an interrogator noted, "the wound in Barrow's head gave off such
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Henry and Cumie Barrow delayed buying a gravestone for Buck. They were sure Clyde would follow him into death any day, and whether for practical or loving reasons or a mix of both, decided to wait for Clyde. Clyde liked the idea and suggested the epitaph to go over himself and his brother: "Gone But
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Sheriff R.A." Smoot" Schmid wrote a letter of introduction to the local authorities for Buck and Clyde's mother Cumie, and a deputy sheriff provided money to help cover her expenses in the 36-hour drive to Iowa. She and her youngest son LC arrived for Buck's last conscious days. As his pneumonia
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Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa. His doctors commented in their report on how clean Buck's head wound was, given the circumstances. Bonnie and Clyde had poured hydrogen peroxide into the head wound, cleaning it. On arrival Buck was generally lucid and told doctors that
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jail for a week. The turkey adventure was an ironic joke to them; Buck was making ends meet by stealing automobiles in cities all over Texas and selling them for a comfortable $ 100 or so to fences out of state.
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near Midway, Texas. He simply walked out of the prison, stole a guard's car, and drove to his parents' place in West Dallas where
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City Marshal Henry D. Humphrey during a gunfight on the road between Alma and Fayetteville. Clyde Barrow was not involved in the Humphrey killing.
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aspirin helped the pain in his head and the only real pain he felt was from his other gunshot wounds, particularly the one in his back.
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Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults.
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Barrow, Blanche Caldwell, edited by John Neal Phillips (2004).
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Go Down Together. The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
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Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow was born in Jones Prairie,
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