FBI Register

ID: 1352 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries ~ Creator: Dallas Police Department
This file appears in: Clyde Barrow
FBI Register

The Bureau of Investigation, predecessor to the FBI, joined the chase for Barrow in 1933 after tracing to the pair a stolen car which had crossed state lines. This register depicts FBI director John Edgar Hoover’s records concerning Barrow’s criminal charges from 1926 until his death in 1934. Note Barrow’s arrest in Waco in 1929 under one of his many aliases, Elvin Williams.

This file appears in: Clyde Barrow

By Terri Jo Ryan
Waco’s law enforcement has seen many a hoodlum since the days of the town’s founding in 1849. One of the most notorious was Clyde Barrow—half of the infamous gun-slinging duo Bonnie and Clyde. On October 16, 1929, Waco police arrested Barrow in the…