But Clyde said he didn't care - she was to get five dinners, period, and he wanted chicken if they had it. Buying five meals would be a tip-off that there were more of them than that. Blanche reminded Clyde that they'd just checked in as a party of three. She was to bring the food back so they could eat in the cabins.

He gave her more loose change and told her to go over to the tavern and buy five dinners and beer. Almost as soon as everyone was inside, Clyde sent for Blanche. Buck and Blanche took the cabin on the left. Criminals were notorious for doing that so they could make fast getaways.Ĭlyde got Bonnie settled in the right-hand cabin. Houser took the money and watched as the fellow driving the Ford V-8 pulled up to the cabins, opened the door of the garage between them, and backed his car in.

Then she paid the $4 rent in loose change, undoubtedly looted earlier in the day from the cash registers and gum machines at the three service stations in Fort Dodge. Pants like that were seldom seen in Platte City, Missouri, and several people who saw Blanche there were still remarking about them decades later. For one thing, Blanche was wearing her beloved 'riding breeches' - jodhpurs was the correct fashion term - that were skintight across the rear and flared out from the hip to the knee. Houser, the owner-operator of the Red Crown Tavern and its adjoining two-cabin motor court, was suspicious from the moment Blanche Barrow walked into his office on July 18 and asked to rent the cabins overnight for a party of three.

Bonnie and clyde go down together