This daring LA robber wrote King Edward VIII to save him from the noose…

My latest article for SFGate is about America’s first Bonnie & Clyde – robbers Alexander Mackay and Lucille Walker – whose gang terrorized LA in the early 1930s. Mackay ended up in San Quentin, condemned to death after a failed escape, and he decided to get help. Being a British subject (born in Scotland), he wrote King Edward VIII for help…

https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/california-crime-couple-bonnie-clyde-21069355.php