A surefire way for you and your partner to succeed the costume contest this Halloween is to show up dressed asBonnie and Clyde — wield the antique ( unloaded ! ) saw - off shotgun from the 1933 gunplay at their Joplin , Missouri , hideout .
The Boston Globereportsthat RR Auction is hold an online auction bridge for the Western Field Browning Model 30 shotgun through 12 p.m. Eastern time on Friday , September 20 , and live dictation will take position Saturday good afternoon at the Omni Parker House in Boston . The auction theatre estimates a final sales agreement of around $ 75,000 .
law detective Tom De Graff confiscated the weapon after the shootout , during which Clyde Barrow , Bonnie Parker , and their companions shoot down two police officer — and wounded De Graff — before escaping by wad their car through the service department threshold of the apartment and cannonball along off . When De Graff left the section in 1941 , he took the scattergun with him as a relic .
RR Auction is alsoauctioningoff the wristwatch Clyde break when he die , a bulletproof vest encounter in his elevator car , and a black Quran of poems that Bonnie wrote in 1932 while jailed in Texas for a bollix up hardware storehouse robbery .
“ With small to do other than pine for Clyde and natter with her screw , it is no surprisal that Bonnie ’s fertile imaginativeness turned to poetry , ” the auction listingsays . “ Of the 10 poems in this book , five come along to be original compositions , largely drawn from her adventuresome lifespan on the route with the Barrow Gang . ” Some of the claim are pretty much exactly what you might have expected from the rip - roar outlaw , like “ The Story of ‘ Suicide Sal , ’ ” “ The Prostitute ’s Convention , ” “ The Hobo ’s Last Ride , ” “ The Girl With the Blue Velvet Band , ” and “ The Fate of Tiger Rose . ”
In addition to Bonnie and Clyde ’s personal effects , the auction includes several artifacts from other infamous 20th century criminals . Among the point is a sterling ash grey butt case etch with “ To Al and Mae , 12 - 18 - 29 , From John Torrio . ” The “ Al ” in question is none other than Al Capone — the eccentric was an anniversary gift from mobster mentor to mentee . There ’s also a 14 - karat gold pinkie ring emblazoned with a Star of David and the initials “ MC , ” for Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen .
If you ’re hoping to go gangster this Halloween without dropping bag of money on supplement , you may at least get a line thelingofor free .
[ h / tThe Boston Globe ]
