DS, signed “Marie Francis" and "Mrs. C. T. Barrow,” one page, 8 x 10.5, July 26, 1934. Voluntary statement made to Special Agent E. J. Dowd, in part: "Shortly after Raymond Hamilton, Joe Palmer and Henry Methvin escaped from Eastha[m] Prison Farm, Texas, in January 1934, Floyd Hamilton and his wife, Mildred, came by my place and carried me in their automobile with Mary O'Dare to about ten miles outside of Dallas, Texas, where we met Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Henry Methvin and Raymond Hamilton in a Ford V-8 Coach. Mary O'Dare got out of the car and joined Raymond Hamilton, Henry Methvin and Clyde and Bonnie Parker. I returned to Dallas with Floyd Hamilton and his wife. Since that occasion I saw Henry Methvin one or two times when he visited my mother's home. I have not seen Mary O'Dare except on the streets of Dallas and when she was getting out of a taxicab at Floyd Hamilton's mother's home. Mary O'Dare has not visited me or my mother at my home." Signed at the conclusion by Marie, and countersigned by Cumie and E. J. Dowd as witnesses. In fine condition, with three horizontal folds and creasing to opposing diagonal corners. Signed by both the sister and mother of outlaw Clyde Barrow, this impressive document dates to a little over a month after the ambush killing of Bonnie and Clyde by a six-man posse on a backwoods Louisiana road. This voluntary statement represents one of many ordered in preparation for the forthcoming Bonnie and Clyde harboring trial of 1935, in which twenty associates of the Barrow Gang were sentenced to varying degrees of jail time; Cumie Barrow was sentenced to 30 days in county jail, and Marie Barrow Francis incarcerated for one hour.
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