Legendary outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Parker’s Colt .38 snub-nose detective special, left, was found taped to her
inside thigh with white medical tape after she was shot dead. Barrow’s Colt
.45, right, was recovered post-mortem from his waistband.

(AP) – She kept a Colt .38-caliber revolver close, while he preferred a .45-caliber
pistol from the same maker.

But neither weapon was enough to save American outlaws and lovers Bonnie
Parker and Clyde Barrow during a 1934 ambush by law enforcement officers.

After the duo was dead, authorities recovered the revolver Bonnie had secured
to an inner thigh with white medical tape. They also seized the handgun Clyde
had tucked into his waistband.

Nearly 80 years later, those guns and other items connected to the infamous
gangsters will be going up for auction in New Hampshire on Sept. 30. An auction
official estimated Thursday that each Bonnie and Clyde weapon could bring
between $100,000 and $200,000.

"They were pretty famous in their moment and I think that’s lasted through time,"
said Bobby Livingston, vice president of RR Auction in Amherst, N.H.

Besides the guns, other items Livingston’s company will auction include a gold
pocket watch Clyde was wearing when he died, and a cosmetics case Bonnie
was using to carry lipstick, Coty face powder and a powder puff. The brown
leatherette box was inside the Ford automobile the gangsters were riding in
when a posse of lawmen riddled it with bullets on a Louisiana road (below).

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Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota) is 61
today. She is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television
series Charlie’s Angels, hired prior to its second season in 1977 to replace
the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained with the show until its
cancellation in 1981.

Mary Leonard

Mary Gysin Leonard was born around 1845. She was a pioneer attorney 
in the state of Oregon. As a Swiss immigrant who moved to the Northwest
territory after the Civil War. Her two-year marriage to Daniel Leonard ended
in divorce. Her ex-husband, who refused to honor a court order for providing
support, was found dead in 1878 from a gunshot wound. Leonard was charged 
but acquitted of murder that many believed she had committed.

After her trial, she studied law and became the first female lawyer admitted to 
the bar in the Washington Territory and in the state of Oregon in 1884. She
continued to practice law in Portland until June 1912. Leonard died October
24, 1912 at the Multnomah County Hospital of heart disease. The Oregon
Woman Lawyers’ chapter in Marion County is named in her honor.  

Alcatraz Island, Calif.

From left: prisoners Frank Morris,Clearance Anglin and brother John
Anglin. Morris was the mastermind behind the escape attempt.

The June 11, 1962 Alcatraz escape was an attempt by convicted bank robbers
Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris to escape Alcatraz Island, one
of the country’s most famous prisons. They burrowed out of their cells with
spoons, climbed a ventilation shaft onto the roof and then climbed down
and left the island on a makeshift raft made of raincoats.Their escape was
not realized until the next morning. Despite an extensive search, the men
were never heard from again and their fates remain unknown to this day.

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The 1979 movie based on the true story.

   
             Bonnie Elizabeth Parker                       Clyde Chestnut Barrow   
           (Oct. 1, 1910-May 23, 1934)                 (Mar. 24, 1909-May 23, 1934) 
                            

The well-known criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow traveled the Central  
U.S.with their gang the “Barrow Gang” during the Great Depression. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. The couple themselves were eventually ambushed and killed on a rural
road in Louisiana by law officers. Their exploits became a major part of American
pop folklore with the1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye
Dunaway.

The the ambush site was located on a desolate road, deep in the Louisiana woods

The Bonnie and Clyde 1934 Ford V8 Deluxe Sedan after the ambush

The Bonnie and Clyde Death Car on display at a museum in Nevada