Remarkable original sentencing list of the 23 defendants indicted in the famous 1935 Bonnie and Clyde harboring trial, one page, 8.5 x 14, no date [February 26, 1935]. Defendants are sorted into four sections and listed in accordance with their plea: "Defendants Pleading Not Guilty, 1. Floyd Garland Hamilton, Guilty 2 yrs Leavenworth / 2. Billie Mace, " 1 yr 1 day Alderson W. Va. / 3. Mildred Hamilton, " 1 hour Co. jail / 4. L. C. Barrow, " 13 mo Leavenworth not to run concurrent with / 5. Mrs. Emma Parker, " 30 days / 6. Mrs. Alice Hamilton Davis, " 30 days / 7. Henry Methvin, " 15 mo, concurrent with such sentence Rec in open / 8. Mrs. Cumie Barrow, " 30 days Co Jail / 9. Steve Davis, " 90 days Co Jail / 10. S. J. Whatley, " 1 yr 1 day Leavenworth, not to run concurrent / 11. W. H. Bybee, " 90 days Co jail run concurrent with sentence now serving / 12. Marie Francis, " 1 hr county jail / 13. Audrey Fay Barrow, " 15 days Co jail Dallas jail / 14. Joe Chambless, " 60 days Dallas Co Jail / 15. William D. Jones, " 2 yrs Leavenworth with sentence now serving." The second section: "Defendants Who Plead Guilty, 16. Mary Pitts, Guilty, 1 yr 1 day Alderson W. Va. / 17. John Basden, " 1 yr 1 day Leavenworth / 18. Joe Francis, " 60 days / 19. James Mullen, " 4 mo… / 20. Blanche Barrow, " 1 yr 1 day Alderson W. Va., run current with sentence now serving." The third section: "Defendants Dismissed, 21. Lillian McBride, Dismissed by US atty, 2-22-35 / 22. Beulah Praytor, Dismissed by US atty, 2-22-35." The final section, "Defendant Not Apprehended," lists Raymond Hamilton as "At Large." In fine condition, with expected document wear. Over a year after the death of Bonnie and Clyde, an ensemble of all who helped, hid, or conspired with the two outlaws were accordingly sentenced in a Dallas courtroom in late February 1935. As the list indicates, 20 of the 23 indicted were given sentences ranging from "1 hour" in a county jail to a full two years in prison; Lillie McBride, the sister of of Raymond Hamilton, and Beulah Praytor, were dismissed for lack of evidence. Hamilton remained at large, but was later captured and executed by electric chair less than two months later. An exceptional document from one of the largest and most publicized trials of the period.
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