Guns used in Bonnie and Clyde’s last stand auctioned off - Picture

Published on 01/10/2012 14:04

TWO guns used by gangsters Bonnie and Clyde when they were killed in a hail of gunfire sold at a New Hampshire auction for over £300,000.

The guns were two of 134 artefacts that sold for a total of $1.1 million with around two-thirds of the auctioned items were from Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, but some also came from other notorious criminals, including Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger.

Parker’s .38-calibre Detective Special that she had taped to her thigh when she was killed in 1934 drew the highest bid and sold for £163,000 ($264,000).

Barrow’s 1911 Colt .45-calibre automatic sold for £148,000 $240,000 to the same anonymous bidder.

Many of the auction items came from the estate of the late collector Robert Davis of Waco, Texas, with the remainder coming from various other collections.

Most came from famous gangsters and outlaws, but some were linked to law enforcement officials including Elliot Ness, who led team of federal agents known as The Untouchables which went after Capone’s gang, and Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, who led a posse that tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde in an ambush in Louisiana.

Barrow’s pocket watch sold for £22,200 ($36,000) and a 1921 Morgan silver dollar found in his pocket after he was killed sold for £19,750 ($32,000).