GROVE CITY, ILLINOIS ~ 1934 "SAFE HOUSE"
Grove City is an unincorporated community in Christian County, Illinois

According to my good friend and Bonnie and Clyde researcher Chuck Flynn, this may indeed be Bonnie and Clyde's Illinois hideout.
The accounts of the outlaw couple staying there during their 1934 run, had been passed along by the old time residents of this small
country town. The two houses featured below, are the only two surviving residential houses in that area nowadays. Mr. Flynn's initial
contact to the story, mentioned an old timer, who was at uncle William Sadler's house, next door to the safe house, claiming that Clyde
was a good ol' boy, who in 1934 had saved him as a child, when he accidentially fell over into a hog pen and was about to be trampled.
The story had also included a memory of Clyde obtaining an old black car while there. Clyde's feet couldn't reach the pedals and he
had to rig up wooden blocks on the pedals in order to reach them. He had taken this old timer, who was about 8 or 10 years old at the
time, for rides around the neighboring cornfields. Several old time residents of Grove City recalled the days when the outlaws were
hiding out there. The Hideout wishes to thanks Chuck Flynn for sharing his research and video stills which are being used here.

LICENSE PLATES RECOVERED FROM THE DEATH CAR

Plates recovered had included a 1934 Illinois plate



REPUTED "SAFE HOUSE" OF BONNIE AND CLYDE



THE OLD NEIGHBORING SADLER HOUSE



OLD CEMETERY, WHICH INCLUDES THE DEPARTED SADLER FAMILY MEMBERS

This old haunting cemetery is adjacent to the Sadler house, seen at the top of the hill in photo.



Sadler headstones, which include granite recliners and child seats as markers!



CLOSE-UPS OF THE REPUTED "SAFE HOUSE"














FRIO TOWN (NOW A GHOST TOWN)


Frio Town, known as Frio City before 1886, is a ghost town immediately south of the Presido Crossing on the Frio River in Frio County, Texas.
Located sixteen miles northwest of Pearsall, Frio Town had once housed a general store and six cattle breeders. All that remains of the once
bustling town, is the Frio Town Cemetery and the largely intact ruins of the original courthouse and jail on the private Roberts Ranch.....

....and perhaps this empty sack of potatoes!












BONNIE & CLYDE'S LAST NIGHT


MANGHAM, LOUISIANA


So it's said
A Guinnism that's thrown out there... 
The Late Robert Lee Brunson of Mangham, Louisiana may have been the last person
to have sat down and talked to Bonnie and Clyde, a day before they were ambushed.
While hunting, the 15 year old had come across the outlaws in a clearing they had
made in the brush near his father's farm. He discovered them in their out of the way
hiding spot while searching for his dog, who was barking at them. Bonnie and Clyde 
had a friendly chat with the youth before leaving with their rendezvous with death.


Headstone image courtesy of Rhonda Carter







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