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BARROW GANG CAPTURED MAGAZINES, AMMUNITION, AND OTHER RELICS OF THE SOWERS, TEXAS RAID
Currency:USD
Category:Collectibles
Start Price:5,000.00 USD
Estimated At:10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER)
0.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2013 Jan 31 @ 11:00UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT
On November 21, 1933, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met family members just outside the tiny community of Sowers, Texas where Barrow had arranged a clandestine picnic to celebrate his mother's fifty-ninth birthday. Barrow hoped to return the following day for a second, longer meeting with his family. The next day, as Parker and Barrow approached the meeting spot, police officers officers Richard A. "Smoot" Schmid, Ted Hinton, and a posse of other lawmen armed with Thompson submachine guns and BARs unleashed a fusillade of gunfire from a ditch about seventy-five feet away. As the pair of criminals fled, both were wounded in the legs by several .30 caliber rounds which pierced the driver side door of their stolen 1933 Ford V-8 sedan. The pair subsequently abandoned the car and fled, later hijacking another vehicle.
Millard Edgar Sweatt was among the members of the posse that ambushed Barrow and Parker in the Sowers Raid. Joining the ranks of the Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. in 1931, he served under Sheriff Schmid and alongside future Dallas Sheriff J.E. 'Bill' Decker, participated in the hunt for Depression-era outlaws including the Barrow Gang, the Hamilton brothers, and "Huron" Ted Walters. Following the Sowers Raid, Sweatt was charged with collecting evidence from the Barrow Gang's bullet-riddled Ford.
We offer an historic grouping of artifacts recovered by Millard Sweatt at the scene of the Sowers raid, as well as related photographs and documents. Included is:
Two .45 caliber Colt semi-automatic pistol magazines, recovered by Sweatt at Sowers. It is well known that Clyde Barrow preferred to use a .45, while Bonnie Parker used a smaller caliber revolver.
Fifteen rounds of .45 caliber ammunition (live), recovered by Sweatt at Sowers.
Four .38 caliber ammunition rounds (live), recovered by Sweatt at Sowers.
Five ammunition carton remnants ), recovered by Sweatt at Sowers.
One 1933 Texas dated license plate, ), recovered from the getaway vehicle by Sweatt at Sowers.
One master copy of Buck Barrow's fugitive bulletin with original photo mug shot.
One May 1934 "Wanted" bulletin seeking the apprehension of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Five 8"x 10" photographs of the Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker fatal ambush site given to Sweatt by posse member Ted Hinton.
Thirteen 4" x 5" inch images of Barrow Gang members given to Sweatt by posse member Ted Hinton.
One 8" x 10" portrait of Sheriff Richard A. "Smoot" Schmid and Ted Hinton taken in the aftermath of the Sowers Raid.
One 1933 Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. group portrait depicting Millard Sweatt, Bill Decker, Ted Hinton, Bob Alcorn, and Richard Schmid.
Six childhood portraits of Millard Sweatt and family including his brother, future Chief Deputy Allan Sweatt.
One Dallas Sheriff's Department acetate recording of "The Confession of Huron Ted Walters" (requires restoration).
One handwritten letter from Millard Sweatt's uncle, Ernest Sweatt, transferring Barrow Gang relics to Millard
Sweatt's brother, future Chief Criminal Deputy Allan Sweatt.
Following the Sowers Raid, Millard Sweatt would rise through the ranks of the Dallas Sheriff's Department until, following the election of Bill Decker as Sheriff in 1949, he was promoted to Chief Criminal Deputy, placing him second in command of Dallas' police force.
After retiring from the Dallas Sheriff's Department, Sweatt became Chief Investigator for Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade. Precisely thirty years and one day after he leveled a gun at Bonnie and Clyde in Sowers - Millard Sweatt would witness the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from his office high above Dealey Plaza.
Kennedy's open limousine passed directly beneath Sweatt's office window just before the first shot rang out. The responsibility for building criminal cases against Lee Harvey Oswald and, ultimately, Jack Ruby, fell in large part onto the shoulders of Millard Sweatt, as well as his younger brother Allan, the highest ranking law officer on the scene of Kennedy's murder.
At some point, these relics came into the possession of Millard's uncle, Ernest Sweatt, and then were given to Millard's brother, Allan. Following Allan's rather suspicious death in the early 1970s, they lay forgotten for years until rediscovered by a dedicated researcher who discovered them following the sale of Allan Sweatt's residence.
An important grouping of crime memorabilia for the dedicated collector - and better provenance for Bonnie and Clyde relics would be impossible to find!
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