Bonnie and Clyde Barrow and Parker to authorities but he never learned Methvin's name. The resultant arrest warrant for the Campbell murder specified "Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker and John Doe." Historian Knight writes: "For the first time, Bonnie was seen as a killer, actually pulling the trigger—just like Clyde. Whatever chance she had for clemency had just been reduced." "The Dallas Journal" ran a cartoon on its editorial page showing the Texas electric chair, empty, but with a sign on it saying '"Reserved" and "Clyde and Bonnie". Barrow and Parker were ambushed and killed on Wednesday, May 23, 1934, on a rural road
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