[1] Though Hamilton initially ordered them to go back, Clyde welcomed the convicts and offered to let them join the gang.

[2] About a month after the breakout, on February 19, Methvin joined Hamilton and Barrow in stealing guns and ammunition from a National Guard armory in Ranger, Texas, under the cover of darkness.

Bonnie and Clyde agreed to drive Methvin to visit his father near Gibsland, Louisiana, on March 1.

He 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.

[2] On April 30, Methvin took part in a Kansas bank robbery with the Barrow gang, joined by Joe Palmer, and they escaped with $2,800.

Ivan 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.

In exchange, Methvin was promised that his son would not get the death penalty for the murders of Troopers Wheeler and Murphy in Grapevine, Texas two months earlier.

[2] On May 23, 1934, Ivan 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 Methvin, Hamer gave the signal and his 6-man posse fired, killing both of them.

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

He 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.

The jailer, a Seneca Cayuga Native American man by the name of Tom Armstrong, overpowered Methvin and the escape was foiled.