![]() Walters then led him into his house where Mr. He found Walters sprawled across the seats of his boat. ![]() He noticed that there was a pair of strange shoes in the box and started to search around. Home owner Hoyt Houston had just finished his breakfast and headed out to his boat house to return the family's kitten to it's box. While an all night manhunt ensued, Walters cooled his heels 3 miles away in a Bedford, Texas boat house at the Houston family residence. On Villa Drive, Walters dropped off his passenger and made it on foot through a pasture, armed with a shotgun and a couple of boxes of shells. Walters sped off with the officer firing several more rounds at the fleeing outlaw. During the skirmish, Walters was slightly wounded. Ted Walters pulled out his weapon and there was a gunfight between him and the officer. Huron Ted Walters was driving his 1962 Plymouth Valiant with Etta Mae Compton, when Euless, Texas officer Sgt. It started off as a routine traffic violations stop. "That dern cat started it all" - Hoyt Houston If you stand on the bridge where Ted was killed you can easily see the spot where Clyde and Company did "their" killing. "Terrible Ted" was gunned down personally by Tom Arnold of Company "B" Texas Rangers. ![]() The spot, oddly enough, was just across the road about 300 feet from where Bonnie, Clyde and Methvin killed the two police officers on April 1, 1934. In October of 1971, "Terrible Ted" Walters was killed in a gun battle with Texas Rangers on a bridge just outside of Grapevine, Texas. More on "Terrible Ted" "Terrible Ted" Walters
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