Posted on 05/29/2018 7:42:30 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
HUGOTON, Kan. — A recently dug-up underground tunnel in southwest Kansas was likely used by 20th-century outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, according to town leaders.
Hugoton officials last month discovered a partially collapsed tunnel under a building the couple frequented. The tunnel didn’t contain any direct artifacts from the criminal pair, but town leaders plan to continue digging, the Wichita Eagle reported.
“I always wondered why nobody pushed this,” said Jan Leonard, executive director of Stevens County Economic Development. “I’ve been wanting to bring this out for 20 years, but it never has happened. We opened up the tunnel and it has helped.”
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are reported to have spent time in Hugoton during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when the newly discovered Hugoton Gas Field drew thousands of workers to town. Clyde worked in a farmer’s field while Bonnie ran a cafe, where locals believe the couple ran a bootlegging operation, according to town leaders.
“I think the majority of the people here knew that there were rumors about them bootlegging and there were poker games on — and some of them got a little rough,” said Neal Gillespie, the county’s former economic development director whose grandparents lived near Bonnie and Clyde.
The FBI found receipts from Bonnie’s cafe in the couple’s car after they were killed in 1934...
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a Redhead? well that explains the crazy . . . LOL
“She was petite, but not scrawny....”
Cigarette and stance gives her that bad girl image in the old days.
Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.
NICE! The Bonnie and Clyde of our age.
Her real name was Tiffany.
... and apparently Clyde had troubling getting it up
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