Tuesday, July 17, 2012

GANGSTERS,OUTLAWS & GATS


Bonnie and Clyde.-Library of Congress photograph.

The guns of notorious killers and bank robbers , Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, will be sold at an unusual auction in America on September 30 and could fetch $200,000. Bonnie and Clyde were shot dead in a hail of bullets some 80 years ago. Clyde carried a Colt . 45 and Bonnie had a Colt .38 strapped to her thigh. Other items to be sold include Bonnie’s cosmetic case , a box of face powder and a powder puff found at the ambush shoot out. The Elgin watch which belonged to Clyde is also listed by RR Auctions in a sale of 100 lots which includes a letter penned by bank robber John Dillinger from prison and the handwritten score of Madonna Mia, a song composed by Al Capone when he was in Alcatraz.