[Clyde Champion Barrow Wanted Report, 04/28/1933 - Dallas, Texas Police Department]

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Wanted report for Clyde Barrow and his accomplice, Raymond Hamilton on the charges of kidnapping a man and a woman from Ruston, Louisiana and releasing them at Waldo, Arkansas, but taking the man's 1933 Ford Sedan on 4-23-1933. Handwritten note at the bottom states that the car was eventually found at Coleman, Texas two days later. This is a copy report from Ruston, Louisiana that was filed in Dallas, Texas.

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Wanted report for Clyde Barrow and his accomplice, Raymond Hamilton on the charges of kidnapping a man and a woman from Ruston, Louisiana and releasing them at Waldo, Arkansas, but taking the man's 1933 Ford Sedan on 4-23-1933.

Handwritten note at the bottom states that the car was eventually found at Coleman, Texas two days later.

This is a copy report from Ruston, Louisiana that was filed in Dallas, Texas.

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[1] p. ; 12 cm.

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A sub-series of the Dallas Police Department Historical Records and Case Files collection, these materials relate to the Clyde Barrow gang and law enforcement officials' efforts to hunt them down.

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Dallas (Tex.). Police Department. [Clyde Champion Barrow Wanted Report, 04/28/1933 - Dallas, Texas Police Department], legal document, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth78888/: accessed January 23, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.

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