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BONNIE & CLYDE GANG CAPTURED AMMUNITION

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
BONNIE & CLYDE GANG CAPTURED AMMUNITION
<b>1385. BONNIE & CLYDE GANG CAPTURED AMMUNITION </b>BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW (d. 1934) American outlaw lovers, robbers and murderers who terrorized the Southwest for two years before meeting their end in a hail of bullets at a Louisiana roadside ambush. An outstanding find, a .38 caliber bullet seized from the gang in a police raid in Dallas County, Texas in 1933. The round is "live", with brass casing and soft lead bullet, and is sold with a color copy of the box in which the ammunition was found. This fine relic was recovered from the attic of the former home of Dallas Co. Chief Criminal Deputy Allan L. Sweatt (d. 1971), where it had been "lost" for over thirty years. Sweatt's father was Dep. Millard E. Sweatt who pursued the Barrow Gang under the direction of Dallas Co. Sheriff R. A. Schmid. The bullet passed to Sweatt's son, Allan, and was rediscovered in the attic by a retired Massachusetts police officer who in turn sold it to our consignor. A trove of other Barrow Gang items were found with this ammunition, including additional ammunition of other calibers, two hand guns, and Sweatt's personal photographic file with images of the gang members, given to Sweatt for identification purposes. Intensive investigation and in-depth interviews with Sweatt Family members confirm that this bullet were seized from the Barrow gang, and indeed the lot is accompanied by an authentication information package bearing photographic images, text, testimony and career histories obtained from the Sweatt family and the Dallas County Sheriff's Department. Finer Bonnie and Clyde relics with this caliber of provenance would be nearly impossible to find! <b>$400-600</b>