Running With Bonnie and Clyde Quotes

Rate this book
Clear rating
Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults by John Neal Phillips
73 ratings, 4.25 average rating, 10 reviews
Running With Bonnie and Clyde Quotes Showing 1-3 of 3
“Ranger Captain Fred McDaniel drove Fults to Austin. There the outlaw was interviewed about his experiences with Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton. Fults, in turn, probed the Rangers for information about the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde.
'Yeh,' McDaniel said, 'they approached me and Hickman and Gonzualeson that Clyde and Bonnie deal.We told them 'no thanks, we don't ambush people and we don't shoot women.”
John Neal Phillips, Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
“Raymond Hamilton,' the Judge decreed, 'you are here now to be sentenced, friendless and without money. Have you anything to say as to why sentence should not be passed?'
'Yes, I have,' answered Raymond. 'People,' he began, 'I hope I have a few friends among you I want you to know I never killed anyone. . . . Crowson was going to be killed no matter what I did. . . . and I want to tell you that whenever Simmons and the others get after you together, you don't get fairness. . . . They're afraid they can't hold me, that I'll breakout and call more attention to them, so they get me 'the chair'. . . . I don't know if there's anything like 'haunts' but if there are, I sure do want to come back and kick this whole bunch out of bed every night.'
[...]
As the once-dapper bandit was being led past the crowd, several young women pressed against the railing, some trying to touch the gunman. Looking over his shoulder, Hamilton raised his manacled hands to wave farewell, a smile on his face.”
John Neal Phillips, Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
“[From Raymond Hamilton's pre-execution interview]
'What about Mary O'Dare?' came another question.
'That girl "ratted"on me to save her own neck," Raymond said bitterly.
'How about Bergie and the two sisters?' another newsman inquired. 'I'm not squealing on any women,' Hamilton mused. 'Women have enough trouble without men heaping more on them.”
John Neal Phillips, Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults