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W. D. Jones
(詳細はBarrow Gang, whose spree throughout the southern Midwest in the early years of the Great Depression became part of American criminal folklore. Jones ran with Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker for eight and a half months, from Christmas Eve 1932 to early September 1933. He was one of two gang members who were consolidated into the "C. W. Moss" character in the 1967 film ''Bonnie and Clyde.'' "Moss was a dumb kid who run errands and done what Clyde told him," he later said. "That was me, all right."〔"Riding with Bonnie and Clyde."〕
==Early life==
James Zeberdie Jones (April 7, 1883 - January 27, 1923) and Tookie (née Garrison) Jones (August 8, 1884 - September 17, 1971) were sharecroppers in Henderson County, Texas with six children: five sons and a daughter. William was their second youngest child. After postwar cotton prices collapsed they gave up trying to farm, and ''circa'' 1921-22, in the same wave that brought the Barrow family and hundreds of other poor families from the country to the unwelcoming city, the Joneses settled in the industrial slum of West Dallas. It was a maze of tent cities and shacks without running water, gas or electricity, set on dirt streets amid smokestacks, oil refineries, "plants, quarries, lagoons, tank farms and burrow pits" on the Trinity River floodplain.〔West Dallas Neighborhood Development Corporation, Nov. 28, 2000. (West Dallas Environmental History. ) (The Texas Senate. ) Most homes in West Dallas remained without the most basic amenities, and the streets remained unpaved until 1952, when the city of Dallas incorporated it. Phillips pp. 43, 312, 331 fn.4.〕 It was while his family was living in the squatters' camp under the Oak Cliff Viaduct that William, then about five, first met Clyde Barrow, then age 11 or 12.〔
When William was six years old his entire family was stricken by what was probably Spanish flu,〔 which lingered after the 1918 pandemic in pockets of the United States where unhealthy conditions prevailed.〔(The Great Pandemic: Texas ) (The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918-1919 ) (US Department of Health and Human Services )〕 His father and sister died in the same hour,〔("Father and child die of pneumonia." ) ''Dallas Times-Herald'', January 28, 1923. (Bonnie and Clyde's Hideout )〕 his oldest brother two nights later,〔("G.P. Jones Dies." ) ''Dallas Times-Herald'', January 30, 1923. (Bonnie and Clyde's Hideout )〕 all of pneumonia (frequently the coup de grâce delivered by that strain of flu〔("Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic." ) ''NIH News'', August 19, 2008. (National Institutes of Health )〕). Tookie Jones and three of her sons survived.
Jones grew up illiterate. Before or after the illness that devastated his family he got partly through the first grade; he recalled that he left school to sell newspapers.〔Barrow p. 235 fn. 25.〕 He had been friends with LC Barrow, the youngest son of his mother's friend Cumie, since their families' first days in West Dallas. The Joneses and the Barrows were close: when Buck Barrow was to stand trial in San Antonio for car theft, Tookie and her two youngest boys accompanied the Barrows and their two youngest children as they traveled by horse and wagon, 300 miles south, to attend.〔Guinn pp. 39, 147. The 600-mile trip took three weeks each way. The families picked cotton and fruit at farms along the way to earn money to feed themselves. Guinn p. 39.〕 Both boys had big brothers named Clyde; William's brother Clyde drove his wife and Marvin Barrow's girlfriend Blanche across the country to Tennessee in the summer of 1930 to see Marvin while he was on the lam.〔(William Daniel Jones known as W.D. ) (Blanche Barrow Official Website )〕 The Barrows, too, had been hit by disease in the West Dallas camp: Clyde, his father and his younger sister Marie were hospitalized by something so severe that years later Clyde was rejected by the Navy due to its lingering effects.〔Guinn pp. 28, 33.〕
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