Claremore Daily Progress

Entertainment

July 11, 2008

Davis Museum votes against loan to Missouri sheriff’s dept.

Tom Fink



A gun used in one of Bonnie and Clyde’s last known shoot-outs will not be leaving the J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum on loan, as decided at Tuesday’s J.M. Davis Memorial Commission meeting.

The gun in question, a Remington-made 1911 model .45 pistol, was used in one of the last shoot-outs of gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, aka “Bonnie & Clyde.”

The Platte County Sheriff’s Department in Missouri had requested the borrowing of the gun as part of the “Running With Bonnie and Clyde: Red Crown Symposium and Road Tour” symposium in Kansas City.

Museum curator Jason Schubert had prepared to accompany the pistol to the symposium.

According to museum Executive Director Gary Rohr, J.M. Davis Foundation members expressed they did not want any of the museum’s artifacts to leave the museum premises.

Commission members obliged with their wishes, and voted not to send the artifact the sheriff’s department in Platte County, Mo. for the symposium.

Text Only
Entertainment