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Maney Gault, Noted Texas Ranger, Dies By Raymond Brooks, The Austin Statesman Staff. Ranger Captain Mariey Gault, whose share in ending the crime career of the notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker highlighted a quarter century of danger-packed duty in the ranger service, died Thursday. Death came to him at 5:20 a. m. at Seton Infirmary, after an illness of several weeks which had called him back home from his ranger station at Lubbock. Of his 61 years, the past 10 were spent as a ranger captain in charge of the company at Lubbock, and there he handled one of the most famous cases in a century of the rangers' unique history. This was" the investigation of the mysterious attack on Dr. Roy Hunt of Littlefield, and the subsequent fatal shooting of Dr. Hunt. The investigation was handled by Gault and the sensational charges which resulted in the indictment and conviction of another physician in connection with the non-fatal attack, and the later prosecution of an ex-convict in connection with the kil-ing, were outgrowth of his work on the cases. Gault, in his long career, has arrested scores of cattle-rustlers, bank-robbery suspects and other figures in the realm of crime. He was closely associated in his work for years with former Ranger Captain Frank Hamer of Austin. He and Hamer for weeks followed the shadowy trail of the Southwest's most notorious criminal, Clyde Barrow; and he and Hamer, with other officers waited along a country road the night that the final chapter of. Barrow's and his cigar-smoking woman companion, Bonnie Parker's careers were spelled out by the bursts of rifle fire and the hail of bullets on the steel of the desperado's car. Along with Hamer, Gault left the ranger service during a political upheaval; and like Hamer, he was called back again to the state's famous law enforcement service when a political administration closed. Briefly, Gault served as a Travis County deputy sheriff during that interval. Gault was reared in Travis County, and his home remained here at 1606 Nickerson Street during the latter years in which he was stationed at Lubbock. He came horn several weeks ago when he became ill. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rebecca Johnson Gault; a daughter, Mrs. Leona Gault Pannell; a son, Johnson G. Gault, all of Austin; four sisters, Mrs. Nancy Linden Smith of Austin, Mrs. Mary Loy Creel of Liberty Hill, Mrs. Minnie Lee Jones of California and Miss Helen Barbara Gault of Austin and two brothers. Roger B. Gault of Austin and J. M. Gault of Fort Worth. Funeral services will be held Friday. 2 p. m. at the Cook Funeral Home. A long-time associate in the service, the Rev. P. B. Hill, chaplain of the Texas Rangers, will conduct the funeral service, assisted by the (Continued on Page 7, Col. 3)

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