Ted Hinton
| Deputy Sheriff Ted Hinton | |
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The Gibsland posse. Ted Hinton is on the far left of the back row.
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| Born |
October 5, 1904 Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| Died | October 27, 1977 (aged 73) Dallas, Texas |
| Resting place | Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas |
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Ted Hinton (October 5, 1904 – October 27, 1977) was a Dallas County, Texas, deputy sheriff, the youngest of the posse that ambushed and killed Bonnie and Clyde near Gibsland, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934.
Hinton, then twenty-nine, was assigned to accompany Deputy Sheriff Bob Alcorn on the premise that Hinton knew Clyde Barrow and could identify him. Hinton and Alcorn were assigned by Dallas County Sheriff Richard A. "Smoot" Schmid to assist Frank Hamer and his assistant Benjamin Gault in a shoot-to-kill order against Bonnie and Clyde that originated with the Texas prison system chief Lee Simmons. When the Texans reached Bienville Parish on the trail of Bonnie and Clyde, they enlisted the aid of Sheriff Henderson Jordan and his deputy, Prentiss Oakley, as required for jurisdictional purposes.
Hinton became a Sheriff's Deputy in 1932 following the election of Schmid. An avid baseball player, Hinton passed up a chance to join the Cleveland Indians because he did not want to spend time away from his wife and young son. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and reared in Dallas, he knew the Barrow family in his youth.
Ted Hinton was also once acquainted with young Bonnie Parker while she was working in Marco's Cafe in Dallas. Because of her good looks, many of the male customers would flirt with her. Hinton was always gentlemanly and treated Bonnie with respect. Hinton admitted in a later biography that he had a crush on Bonnie, which made it difficult for him as one of the men on the team sent to kill her and her lover, Clyde.
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