Legacy MattersIn San Vincente, Bolivia, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were disabled in a gunfight. The next day, surrounded by troops , they knew there was no way out.
academics and writers have reconstructed their final moments from a police report filed in San Vicente by Inspector Timoteo Rios, who participated in the 1908 manhunt that ended the lives of the two fugitives.
According to the police documents, Parker shot Longabaugh in the forehead and then turned the gun on himself after they were cornered by an army platoon.
"Two shots and three cries of desperation" were heard during the night as army Capt. Justo Concha besieged the gunmen, says the police account. At dawn, Inspector Rios found Longabaugh "lying on the floor with a wound on the forehead and another in his arm and Parker sitting on a stool behind the door hugging a big ceramic jug, shot once through the head and several times through his arm."
In the end, no blaze of glory