In the last weeks before the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde
the Dallas Police had been monitoring the phone calls of
the Barrow family home. Included here, is "Page 42" of the
logbook transcripts. Suspecting that their phone calls,
were indeed being monitored, the family had devised a way
to tell each family member, that they were to join up, in
order to go secretly meet somewhere with Bonnie and Clyde.
If any family member was told that there was beans and
cornbread being prepared for a meal, that would be the
signal that they were to meet up with the "kids".

In these calls, Nell, who worked in a beauty shop was asked
what she was doing tonite, and she stated that she had to curl
someone's hair, and that she didn't think she'd be through in
time. Cumie then tells her that she wished she would come over,
because she had prepared a "big pot full of beans and some cornbread".
After hearing this, Nell said, "maybe I'll get through in time.

Note: ("Mrs. P" refers to Emma Parker and "Mrs. B" to Cumie Barrow)