Bonnie and Clyde Hamer, Dallas County Sheriff's Deputies Alcorn and Ted Hinton (both of whom knew Barrow and Parker by sight), former Texas Ranger B.M. "Manny" Gault, Bienville Parish Sheriff Henderson Jordan and his deputy Prentiss Oakley, set up an ambush at the rendezvous point along Louisiana State Highway 154 south of Gibsland toward Sailes. Hinton recounted that their group was in place by 9:00 p.m. on the 21st and waited through the whole next day (May 22) with no sign of the outlaw couple. Other accounts said the officers set up on the evening of the 22nd. At approximately 9:15 a.m. on
Frank W. Parker J. Fountain and his son, three years after their disappearance. Sheriff Pat Garrett, famous for killing outlaw Billy the Kid, obtained the indictments. The ranchers were defended by Albert Bacon Fall, a Democratic rival of Fountain's, who obtained an acquittal; Fountain's murder was never solved. In 1909, Parker presided over the trial of Jesse Wayne Brazel, this time for the murder of Garrett. Fall again represented the defendant, and again obtained an acquittal. Parker served as a member of New Mexico's constitutional convention and as chair of the committee on judiciary. New Mexico achieved statehood in 1912, and Parker was