Comrades Praise
Men That Trapped
Barrow and Parker
Job Done, Message Sent
by Ex-Rangers, Now
on Highway Patrol
AUSTIN, Texas, May 23—Frank
Hamer and B. M. Gault, two Austin
men who played the principal roles in
trailing and slaying Clyde Barrow and
Bonnie Parker, are veteran officers
and former members of the rangers.
Hamer retired as ranger Captain when
the Fergusons entered the Governor's
office and was succeeded by his
brother, D. E. Hamer. It was Frank
Hamer and Gault who did the work
and their comrades here are paying
them tribute.
Tuesday night I received a tip they would be on the Jamestown-Sailcs road Wednesday morning. With Captain Hamer. Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton, Dallas Reputy Sheriffs; M.T. Gault, Texas highway patrolman, and P. M. Oakley, one of my Bienville Parish deputies, I drove out the road and picked out a place to wait for them.Hamer has ferreted out a number of
noted crimes and has had many
brushes with so-called bad men. He
is about six feet three inches tall and
does not wear the boots and accoutrements of other rangers. Gault
is a smaller, spare man with benevolent features and as gentle as men get
to be. No one would pick him as a
fearless chaser of desperadoes, as he has been for many years.
Commissioned as Patrolmen
Under recent commissions as pa-
trolmen from the Highway Department, Hamer and Gault have been
seeking the hiding places of Barrow
and Bonnie, and they laid the trap
that caught them. "The job is done,"
was the telephone messaige from
Hamer to Capt. L. G. Phares, chief of
the highway patrol. Phares has been
almost sleepless in his efforts to have
the Easter Sunday killers of his two
patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and E. B.
Wheeler, run down. It was Phares
who put Hamer and Gault on the
trail with instructions to go the limit.
Phares chartered a plane and flew to
Arcadia, La., when apprised of the
deaths."
Under recent commissions as pa-
trolmen from the Highway Department, Hamer and Gault have been
seeking the hiding places of Barrow
and Bonnie, and they laid the trap
that caught them. "The job is done,"
was the telephone messaige from
Hamer to Capt. L. G. Phares, chief of
the highway patrol. Phares has been
almost sleepless in his efforts to have
the Easter Sunday killers of his two
patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and E. B.
Wheeler, run down. It was Phares
who put Hamer and Gault on the
trail with instructions to go the limit.
Phares chartered a plane and flew to
Arcadia, La., when apprised of the
deaths.
Rewards to Be Paid
Since his retirement from the rangers Hamer has worked under private employment in a number of crime investigations and has others on his list now.
Phares had accumulated a fund of
more than $4,000 to chase the slayers
of the patrolmen and only a part of
it has been spent. The remainder is
expected to paid in rewards. The
Governor offered a $500 reward and
the Legislature tried to offer $1,000
each for Barrow and Raymond Hamilton, but the bill was defeated.
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