On June 10, 1933 Clyde, Bonnie and W.D. Jones were traveling at high speeds seven miles north of Wellington, Texas when Clyde realized that the bridge was out ahead of them. He was too late, and he flipped the car into the ravine below. Clyde and W.D. made it out of the car unharmed, but Bonnie was trapped under the car when it caught on fire. They manged to get her out with the help of a farm family who had seen the accident but did not know who they were. She suffered third degree burns and needed a great deal of medical care. When the family saw the pile of guns Clyde and W.D. saved from the crash, they believed that the group were criminals. One of them went to their neighbor’s house to call the police. When Sheriff Corey and Marshal Hardy came too the house, Clyde and W.D., who were laying in wait in case lawmen came, ambushed them and shackled them with the hand cuffs the police were planning to use on them. Placing the officers in the back of the sheriff’s car and having Bonnie lie on top of them, W.D. and Clyde drove until they were just out side of Erick, Oklahoma. Buck and Blanche were there when they arrived. The gang bound the officers, who were alive, to a tree with barbed wire that they found and they drove off in Buck’s V8 to Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Bonnie and Clyde:1930s 