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William Daniel ("W.D.", "Bud", "Deacon") Jones (May 12, 1916 – August 20, 1974) was a member of the Barrow Gang, whose crime spree throughout the southern Midwest in the early years of the Great Depression became part of American criminal folklore.
William Daniel ("W.D.", "Bud", "Deacon") Jones (May 12, 1916 – August 20, 1974) was a member of the Barrow Gang, whose crime spree throughout the southern Midwest in the early years of the Great Depression became part of American criminal folklore.
The gang terrorized the people from a nearby farm who had gone to help them, occupying their house and stealing their car. At one point, a gang member – most sources say W.D. Jones – opened fire with a shotgun on a young mother in the house who was checking on her baby.
Dec 10, 2014 · In this source, Barrow gang member W.D. Jones tells the tale of his experience with Bonnie and Clyde. He wrote the piece shortly after the release of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and attempts to debunk some of the sensationalization of the lives of Bonnie and Clyde perpetuated by the movie and other sources.
But after he got away (killing a sheriff's deputy in the process), he and Bonnie spent three months roaming Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri, with their partner W.D. Jones, anonymous and...
Mar 11, 2023 · One of their gang members, W.D. Jones, had been arrested in Dallas in September and had identified Bonnie and Clyde as the perpetrators of several crimes. And after the murder of a man in Texas a few months later, another warrant was issued.
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Voluntary statement by W. D. Jones on November 18, 1933 while under arrest in Dallas, Texas, in which he relates the circumstances of how he met Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and the time-line of several incidents while he was in their company.
22 October 1931, W. D. Jones, 15, and friend LC Barrow were arrested after disappearing with, then wrecking, a bootlegger's car.
Mar 18, 2019 · On April 1, 1933, Bonnie and Clyde, along with Buck and Blanche Barrow, and W.D. Jones hid out in this rented apartment in Joplin, Missouri. Less than two weeks later they were on the lam again, with two dead Joplin policeman left in their wake.
Jun 19, 2024 · Often working with confederates—including Barrow’s brother Buck and Buck’s wife, Blanche, as well as Ray Hamilton and W.D. Jones—Bonnie and Clyde, as they were popularly known, robbed gas stations, restaurants, and small-town banks—their take never exceeded $1,500—chiefly in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Missouri.
