Bonnie and Clyde memorabilia fetches more than $180,000 at auction

A watch and a shotgun were among the items connected to outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker

Several personal items related to 1930s Texas outlaw Clyde Barrow have sold at a Boston auction for nearly $186,000.

RR Auction officials say the Bulova watch that Barrow wore when he and Bonnie Parker were killed in 1934 sold on Saturday for $112,500. Parker and Barrow, who were immortalised in a 1967 film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, were fatally shot by officers in Louisiana.

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