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
Barrow Hepburn & Gale Barrow Hepburn & Gale Barrow, Hepburn & Gale, founded in 1760 as Hepburn and Gale and after 1920 as Barrow Hepburn and Gale, is a British luxury leather goods manufacturer best known as the producer of the Despatch Boxes used by the Government of the United Kingdom. As well as the manufacturing of Despatch Boxes, it is also known for the making of Royal Maundy purses, for which it was granted a royal warrant in 1968. Barrow, Hepburn & Gale despatch boxes have become a symbol of the British democratic system and its constitutional monarchy, being used by successive sovereigns