Editing Bonnie and Clyde (section)

=== Personal effects===
The posse never received the promised [[Bounty (reward)|bounty]] on the perpetrators, so they were told to take whatever they wanted from the confiscated items in their car. Hamer appropriated the arsenal<ref>Phillips, ''Running'', p.  207</ref> of stolen guns and ammunition, plus a box of fishing tackle, under the terms of his compensation package with the Texas DOC.<ref group=notes>Hamer was interested in the Barrow hunt assignment, but the pay was only a third of what he made working for oil companies. To sweeten the deal, Texas Department of Corrections boss Lee Simmons granted him title to all the guns that the posse would recover from the slain murderers. Almost all the guns, which the gang had stolen from armories, were the property of the National Guard. There was a thriving market for "celebrity" guns, even in 1934 (Guinn, p. 343).</ref> In July, Clyde's mother Cumie wrote to Hamer asking for the return of the guns: "You don't ever want to forget my boy was never tried in no court for murder, and no one is guilty until proven guilty by some court so I hope you will answer this letter and also return the guns I am asking for."<ref name=tre224>Treherne, p.  224</ref> There is no record of any response.<ref name=tre224 />

Alcorn claimed Barrow's [[saxophone]] from the car, but he later returned it to the Barrow family.<ref name="Guinn, p 343">Guinn, p. 343</ref> Posse members took other personal items, such as Parker's clothing. The Parker family asked for them back but were refused,<ref name="posse" /><ref>[http://texashideout.tripod.com/emlet.jpg ''Emma Parker letter''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804050023/http://texashideout.tripod.com/emlet.jpg |date=August 4, 2018 }}. TexasHideout. Retrieved May 26, 2008.</ref> and the items were later sold as souvenirs.<ref>Steele, p ?; Phillips, pp. 209–11.</ref> The Barrow family claimed that Sheriff Jordan kept an alleged suitcase of cash, and writer Jeff Guinn claims that Jordan bought a "barn and land in Arcadia" soon after the event, thereby hinting that the accusation had merit, despite the complete absence of any evidence to the existence of such a suitcase.<ref name="Guinn, p 343" />