Editing Bonnie and Clyde (section)

=== 1932: Early robberies and murders ===
{{Further|Barrow Gang}}

[[File:BonnieParkerCigar1933.jpg|thumb|Parker's pose with a cigar and a revolver cultivated her portrayal in the press as a 'cigar-smoking gun moll' after police discovered the undeveloped film at the Joplin residence.]]
After Barrow's release from prison in February 1932, he and [[Ralph Fults]] began a series of robberies, primarily of stores and gas stations.<ref name=":0" /> Their goal was to collect enough money and firepower to launch a raid against Eastham prison.<ref name="eastham" /> On April 19, Parker and Fults were captured in a failed hardware store [[burglary]] in [[Kaufman, Texas|Kaufman]] in which they had intended to steal firearms.<ref>Guinn, pp. 103–04</ref> Parker was released from jail after a few months, when the [[grand jury]] failed to [[indictment|indict]] her. Fults was tried, convicted, and served time. He never rejoined the gang. Parker wrote poetry to pass the time in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]] jail,<ref>Guinn, p. 109.</ref><ref group=notes>Parker composed these poems in an old bankbook, which the jailer's wife had given her to use as paper. Some were her own work, and some were songs and poems she copied from memory. She titled the lot ''Poetry From Life's Other Side''. After being released from jail, she either left it behind or gave it to the jailer. In 2007, the bankbook sold for $36,000. [http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=WholeCataloguePrint&iSaleNo=15291 Item 5337] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708082454/http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=WholeCataloguePrint&iSaleNo=15291 |date=July 8, 2011}} [http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=aboutus Bonhams 1793: Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227083936/http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=aboutus |date=February 27, 2010}}</ref> and reunited with Barrow within a few weeks of her release.

On April 30, Barrow was the getaway driver in a robbery in [[Hillsboro, Texas|Hillsboro]], during which store owner J.N. Bucher was shot and killed.<ref>Ramsey, Winston G., ed. (2003). ''On The Trail of Bonnie and Clyde: Then and Now''. London: After The Battle Books. {{ISBN|1-870067-51-7}}, p. 53</ref> Bucher's wife identified Barrow from police photographs as one of the shooters, although he had stayed inside the car.

On August 5, Barrow, [[Raymond Hamilton]], and Ross Dyer were drinking [[moonshine]] at a country dance in [[Stringtown, Oklahoma]], when Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and Deputy Eugene C. Moore approached them in the parking lot. Barrow and Hamilton opened fire, killing Moore and gravely wounding Maxwell.<ref>Guinn, p. 120</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Deputy Sheriff Eugene C. Moore |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer/9549-deputy-sheriff-eugene-c.-moore |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page |access-date=November 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212204724/http://www.odmp.org/officer/9549-deputy-sheriff-eugene-c.-moore |archive-date=December 12, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Moore was the first law officer whom Barrow and his gang killed. They eventually murdered nine. On October 11, they allegedly killed Howard Hall at his store during a robbery in [[Sherman, Texas]], though some historians consider this unlikely.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kxii.com/news/headlines/On-80th-anniversary-Clyde-Barrow-no-longer-said-to-be-Sherman-murder-173800241.html|title=On 80th anniversary, Clyde Barrow no longer said to be Sherman murder|work=[[KXII]]|last=Powell|first=Steven|date=October 11, 2012|access-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903082116/http://www.kxii.com/news/headlines/On-80th-anniversary-Clyde-Barrow-no-longer-said-to-be-Sherman-murder-173800241.html|archive-date=September 3, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[W. D. Jones]] had been a friend of Barrow's family since childhood. He joined Parker and Barrow on Christmas Eve 1932 at the age of 16, and the three left Dallas that night.<ref>Guinn, p. 147</ref> The next day, Christmas Day 1932, Jones and Barrow murdered Doyle Johnson, a young family man, while stealing his car in [[Temple, Texas|Temple]].<ref>Ramsey, pp. 80–85</ref> Barrow killed [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] Deputy Malcolm Davis on January 6, 1933, when he, Parker, and Jones wandered into a police trap set for another criminal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Deputy Malcolm Davis |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer/3880-deputy-malcolm-davis |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page |access-date=November 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212053617/http://www.odmp.org/officer/3880-deputy-malcolm-davis |archive-date=December 12, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The gang had murdered five people since April.