Editing Bonnie and Clyde (section)

=== Platte City ===
{{Main|Red Crown Tourist Court}}
[[File:RedCrownBarrowHideout1933.jpg|thumb|The two-unit [[Red Crown Tourist Court]], where the gang's conspicuous behavior drew police. Buck was mortally wounded in the ensuing gunfight. {{Coord|39.31194|-94.68639|display=inline|region:US-MO|name=1933 Site of Red Crown Tourist Court Platte City, Missouri}}]]

In July 1933, the gang checked in to the [[Red Crown Tourist Court]]<ref name="platte">Vasto, Mark. [http://www.plattecountylandmark.com/Article792.htm "Local lawmen shoot it out with notorious bandits"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527073111/http://www.plattecountylandmark.com/Article792.htm |date=May 27, 2008 }}. Platte County Landmark. Retrieved May 25, 2008.</ref> south of [[Platte City, Missouri]]. It consisted of two brick cabins joined by garages, and the gang rented both.<ref name="platte" /> To the south stood the Red Crown Tavern, a popular restaurant among [[Missouri Highway Patrol]]men, and the gang seemed to go out of their way to draw attention.<ref>Knight, James R. and Jonathan Davis (2003). ''Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update''. Waco, Texas: Eakin Press. {{ISBN|1-57168-794-7}}. p. 100</ref> Blanche registered the party as three guests, but owner Neal Houser could see five people getting out of the car. He noted that the driver backed into the garage "gangster style" for a quick getaway.<ref name="Guinn, p 211">Guinn, p. 211</ref>

[[File:BlancheCapturedExfield1933.jpg|thumb|[[Blanche Barrow|Blanche]] is captured at Dexfield Park, Iowa, still in her [[jodhpurs]].<br />{{Coord|41.564388|-94.228942|display=inline|region:US-IA|name=Site of Barrow Gang shootout at Dexfield Park, Iowa}}]]
Blanche paid for their cabins with coins rather than bills, and did the same later when buying five dinners and five beers.<ref>Knight and Davis, p. 112.</ref><ref group=notes>The gang had many coins because they had broken into the gumball machines at the three service stations that they robbed in [[Fort Dodge, Iowa]], earlier that day. Guinn, pp. 210–11</ref> The next day, Houser noticed that his guests had taped newspapers over the windows of their cabin; Blanche again paid for five meals with coins. Her outfit of [[jodhpurs|jodhpur]] riding breeches<ref>Parker, Cowan and Fortune, p. 117</ref> also attracted attention; they were not typical attire for women in the area, and eyewitnesses still remembered them 40 years later.<ref name="Guinn, p 211" /> Houser told Captain William Baxter of the Highway Patrol, a patron of his restaurant, about the group.<ref name="platte" />

Barrow and Jones went into town<ref group=notes>Sources are split on this; most say that it was Blanche who went to town, but she recounted it as Clyde and Jones; p. 112</ref> to purchase bandages, crackers, cheese, and [[atropine sulfate]] to treat Parker's leg.<ref>Barrow and Phillips, p. 112</ref> The druggist contacted Sheriff [[Holt Coffey]], who put the cabins under surveillance. Coffey had been alerted by Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas law enforcement to watch for strangers seeking such supplies. The sheriff contacted Captain Baxter, who called for reinforcements from [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], including an [[Armored car (VIP)|armored car]].<ref name="platte" /> Sheriff Coffey led a group of officers toward the cabins at 11 p.m. on July 20, 1933, armed with [[Thompson submachine gun]]s.<ref name="redcrown">[http://texashideout.tripod.com/redcrown.html "Red Crown Incident"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526182154/http://texashideout.tripod.com/redcrown.html |date=May 26, 2008 }}. TexasHideout. Retrieved May 25, 2008.</ref>

[[File:WDJones1933.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|W. D. Jones' confession triggered murder warrants against the gang.]]
In the gunfight that ensued, the officers' .45 caliber Thompsons proved no match for Barrow's .30 caliber BAR, stolen on July 7 from the [[United States National Guard|National Guard]] armory at [[Enid, Oklahoma]].<ref>Ramsey, p. 153</ref> The gang escaped when a bullet short-circuited the horn on the armored car<ref group=notes>The armored car was an ordinary automobile that had been fortified with panels of extra boilerplate.</ref> and the police officers mistook it for a cease-fire signal. They did not pursue the retreating Barrow vehicle.<ref name="platte" />

The gang had evaded the law once again, but Buck had been wounded by a bullet that blasted a large hole in the bone of his forehead and exposed his injured brain. Blanche was also nearly blinded by glass fragments.<ref name="platte" /><ref>Barrow and Phillips, pp. 119–21</ref>