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Bonnie and Clyde — Part 2
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AT MOBILE, ALABAMA. .
Agent ascertained from J. D. Bass, Postal carrier on Noute No, 40,
Mobilé, Alabama, thet Fost Office Box 815 receives mail addressed to Mra. W.~ I.
Parker, 211 Mohawk Street; thet the only people thet he had seen at this address
besides some small children were an elderly gentleman and a heevy-sct lady,
whose name he did not know.
Mrs. W. E, Parker, 211 Mohewk Street, Noute No. 40,"Mobile, Alebema,
advised thet her daughter, Fratces Medalld Parker, ran away froii homé February
10, 1951; that she, Mrs. Parker, later learned that her daughter mrried a
sailor named Joe Ernest Jolley, who i# at the present time tn Division C, U.S.5,
AUGUSTA; that she received & letter from Jolley dated January 22, 1935, advising
her that he had not seen nor heard of her daughter, his wife, in over a year.
Mra. Parker said that when she saw the account of the shooting and capture of
Melvin Iva Barrow, and that Clyde Champion Berrow and his wife, Botinie Parker
Ba*row, had escaped, that she thought possibly that this latter party might bé
her daughter; thet she had discussed with a lady by the name of Mrs. L. C. Parl
whom she met in front of One of the picture shows in Mobile, Alabama, the dis-
appearance of hér dalighter, and also Zhowed her the newspaper clipping relative
to Bonnie Parker Barrow; that Mre. Parl sliggested to lier that it would tot be a
bad idea to Write the suthcrities to ascertain whether or not Bonnie Parker
Barrow inswered the déscriptitin of her daughter, stating that she; Mrs. Parl,
would write the letter for her end that Mrs. Parl wrote the letter above referred
to but she did not know thet Mrs. Parl had Signed Mre. Pearl's name to the letter,
but tholight that sh@é hed signed her name, Mrs. W. EB. Parkes. Agent inquired of
Mrs. Parker where Mrs. Parl could be located, “and was informed that she had ‘left
Mobile, Alabame, for New Orleans, but her address was unknown; that Mrs. Parl had
informed her, Mrs. Parker, that she hed resided at the Salvation Army in Mobile.
_ At the time agent ifiterviewed Mrs. W. E. Parker, Mrs. Anna Powel, who
residts at 1214 South 14th Street, Hamilton, Ohio, uni who was visiting her
mother, Mrs. W. E. Parker, was also interviewed. Mrs. Powel stated that she had
not seen nor heerd of her sister in over a year. Agent aubmitted photograph of
Bonnie Parker Barrow to Mrs. Powel and Mes, Parker, ond they both steted that it
resembles somewhet Francés Medalla Parker, but that it was not her photograph.
Mr, Rey Gearing, Adjutent of the Salvetion Army, Mobile, Alabama,
aivised agent after searching his récords, that he did not have any reGord of
anyond by the name of Mrs. L. C. Perl having worked at the Salvation Army Heed-
quarters, or having resided there during the year 1933. ; -
_ Durin# the course of ‘the conversation had With Mrs, Parker, agent
léarned thet her daughter, after leaving hime February 1951, became a common
prostitute, and was such at the time of her marriage to Jolley. 7
: Mre. Parker furnished the following description of her daughter,
Frances Medeallea Parker?
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