Tearily, she told the reporter about their conversation: “’Son, I said, did you do what they say in the papers?’ And he said, Mother, I haven’t never done anything as bad as kill a man.”She said she didn’t know the young woman, “Bonnie,” who supposedly helped with the robberies, and she didn’t know if the young woman had been with Clyde.“Everybody likes Clyde, you know,” she went on, sharing some family photos of her son. At one point, Cumie kept a log of their visits on the wall of her tiny home, recording about 20 meetings between December 1933 and March 1934.Perhaps Cumie’s most crucial role was as Clyde and Bonnie’s likely banker. The notion that Blanche did not know until later that Buck was an escaped convict was fabricated by the Barrow family and Blanche herself as a means of convincing Missouri State authorities to reduce her prison sentence following her capture in July 1933.
Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow was born in Jones Prairie, Marion County, Texas, the third child of Henry and Cumie Barrow. Cumie became savvy in survival skills.In early 1930, he met and fell head over heels for Bonnie Parker, an animated, petite blond who was separated from her teen husband. Bonnie and Clyde had poured hydrogen peroxide into the head wound, cleaning it.Lawmen visited him in the hospital to get his final statements. Daughter of William Wilson Walker and Mahala Ann Walker Wife of Henry Basil Barrow Mother of Elvin Wilson Barrow; Artie Adell Winkler Keys; Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow; Nellie May Francis; Clyde Chestnut Barrow and 3 others She was almost certainly more complicit than that.The parents of gangster Clyde Barrow, sitting in their home, circa 1939. His mother gave the stonecutters their sister Nell's birth year for him.
Tearily, she told the reporter about their conversation: “’Son, I said, did you do what they say in the papers?’ And he said, Mother, I haven’t never done anything as bad as kill a man.”She said she didn’t know the young woman, “Bonnie,” who supposedly helped with the robberies, and she didn’t know if the young woman had been with Clyde.“Everybody likes Clyde, you know,” she went on, sharing some family photos of her son. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)She hired lawyers with money provided by her son Buck, Clyde’s older brother, who apparently got the cash by holding up filling stations and stealing company payrolls. In an ambush on a dusty rural road in northeast Louisiana, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow The tombstone of Clyde Barrow and his brother Marvin, better known by his nickname “Buck.” (Credit: Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)In early 1935, federal officials indicted a number of their family members and gang members for harboring the criminals. In an interview with Dallas’ Though he and Bonnie were known to stop by frequently, she denied he had participated in bank robberies or that he was a murderer. He got married twice within a few years, and he also got divorced twice rather quickly. )The murder charge was dropped when another suspect emerged. Even then, she stood by Clyde, refusing to urge him to turn himself in.If Clyde surrendered, he would almost certainly be executed, she said, and if he didn’t, officers would likely shoot to kill. A manuscript written by Blanche Barrow, Buck’s wife, and published after her death details a family gathering in May 1933, after Clyde, Buck, Bonnie and Blanche had robbed a bank. November 10, 2013 note from Zombie finder (#47208251), His father was Buck Barrow, Clyde Barrow's brother of Bonnie and Clyde fame. But there is evidence Cumie had funds.A manuscript written by Blanche Barrow, Buck’s wife, and published after her death details a family gathering in May 1933, after Clyde, Buck, Bonnie and Blanche had robbed a bank. Clyde didn’t hang around West Dallas long enough to pass around cash. Cumie was charged, but not Clyde’s father Henry. Buck was imprisoned in 1929, after being captured for a burglary he had committed in Denton, Texas. Buck escaped from prison and went back home.