15 Facts About Henry Methvin

Henry Methvin was an American criminal, a bank robber, and a Depression-era outlaw.

Henry Methvin is best remembered as the final member of Bonnie and Clyde's gang.

Henry Methvin was born in Louisiana on April 8,1912, to Ivan "Ivy" T Methvin and Avie Stephens.

Henry Methvin remained with the gang until their end four months later.

Henry Methvin wrote to relatives blaming Methvin, who he claimed had misunderstood Barrow's suggestion that they "take" the troopers, meaning to disarm and take them for a "joyride", and instead opened fire.

Henry Methvin hitchhiked to Ruston, where his parents were living at the time.

Henry Methvin was supposed to meet the gang on a deserted stretch of highway south of Arcadia.

Ivan Henry Methvin, then being harassed by lawmen in pursuit of his son and the rest of the gang, was alleged to have given this information to Louisiana sheriff Henderson Jordan, who then passed it on to Texas Ranger Frank Hamer.

On May 23,1934, Ivan Henry Methvin parked his truck near the meeting spot and removed one of the wheels as if changing a flat tire.

When Bonnie and Clyde stopped to assist Henry Methvin, Hamer gave the signal and his six-man posse fired, killing both of them.

An alternate scenario in the 1990s, supposedly suppressed for over 60 years, claimed that Ivan Henry Methvin had been forced to go along with the ambush.

Henry Methvin was stopped by lawmen on the highway and tied to a tree while his truck was parked on the road so that Bonnie and Clyde would slow and be looking in the wrong direction when the ambush was sprung.

Henry Methvin spent the rest of his pre-trial time in the hole.

Henry Methvin was found guilty of Constable Campbell's murder and sentenced to death on December 20,1935.

Henry Methvin's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on September 18,1936.