BOSTON — A bitter letter from notorious Depression-era gangsters Bonnie and Clyde to a former member of their gang they felt had betrayed them is going up for auction.
The four-page letter was written in April 1934 in Bonnie Parker's neat cursive and signed by Clyde Barrow. It could fetch more than $40,000 when it's sold next month by Boston-based RR Auction.
The letter was sent to Raymond Hamilton while he was in the Dallas County Jail. The couple was upset with Hamilton because of a disagreement over how to split $4,000 stolen from a Texas bank.
“Clyde Barrow wanted Raymond Hamilton dead and they wanted him to know it,” said Robert Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction.
The letter contains thinly veiled threats and accusations of cowardice. It also contains a prescient line about Bonnie and Clyde's demise only a month later when they were killed in a law enforcement ambush.
Two pistols found on the bodies of famed Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after they were killed in 1934 sold at RR auction for a total of $504,000 in 2012.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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