Stringtown, Oklahoma while Bonnie Parker was visiting her mother, Clyde Barrow and two associates were drinking alcohol at a dance in Stringtown (illegal under Prohibition). They were approached by Sheriff C. G. Maxwell and his deputy, at which time Clyde opened fire, killing deputy Eugene C. Moore. That was the first killing of a lawman by what was later known as the Barrow Gang, a total which would eventually amount to nine slain officers. In the 1940s during World War II, Fritz Johann Hansgirg, the Austrian inventor of magnesium and heavy water processes was interned at the U.S. alien internment camp located
Blanche Barrow to back away from the front of the garage door, thereby freeing an escape route for the gang's car. Buck and Blanche had to leave the cover of their cabin as their cabin had no door leading into the garage as did the cabin occupied by Barrow, Parker and Jones. and thus exposed, were targeted by the posse, Buck fell with a through and through wound entering his left temple, traveling the inner surface of the front portion of his skull, and out of his right temple. Blanche stopped and while under fire dragged him into the car, helped by