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=) This section is fairly well wooded end ia crossed by a number of streams, and as the parties in the car appeared to be looking over the country aide, a search was made of half a dozen vacant farm houses and timber shacks for several miles south of the Mosher farm, but no trace of Subjects was founds At Des Moines, Iowa, Agent learned from Mr. Findley, lows Bureau of Investigation, that Ray N» White at Yale, Iowa, was a reliable farm, and that on Tuesday morning, July 18th, several mail boxes at the corner of his farm had been robbed by parties unknown; that the previous evening there was « series of filling station hold=-ups in this same vicinity in which the parties used a Ford Sedan, It is thought thet these were committed by Subjects. Mr, Findley further advised Agent that about 3:00 o'clock Sunday morning, July 25rd, there had been a stickeup and murder near Wappello, lowe, a town south of Muscatine, Iowa, near the Mississippi River which his men were now investigating. He has not secured information as yet concerning the details, Information was received at the Kansas City Office on July 24, 1933, to the effect that the Barrows had been engaged in a gun battle near Dexter, Iowa, carly on the morning of that same date, et which time one officer was wounded, Marvin Barrow and wife were captured, and Clyde Barrow, Hubert Bleigh and Bonnie Parker had escaped. Sheriff Thomas Be Bash, of Jackson County, contacted the Kansas City Office and stated that in view of the fact that one of his deputies hed been wounded by thie gang, end one of his armored cars had been shot up he would like to proceed to Iowa to learn the particulars connected therewith. The writer acw@mpanied Sheriff Bash to Des Moines. e At the County Jail in Iowa Blanche Barrow was interviewed by Sheriff Bash and the writer, She admitted being the wife of Marvin Barrow and said thet she, her husband, Hubert Bleigh, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were in the cabins at Platte City, Missouri, on July 19, 1955, when a gun battle took place; that on this occasion her husband was wounded and seriously injured; that after leaving Platte City they had stopped in the woods not many miles from Platte City until deybresk, and thereafter made their way north through Towas She said that her husband was the only member of the gang who was wounded in Platte City, but as the car left the officers fired upon it, one of the shots hitting the windshield and spattering glass into her eye, which injured it severely and impaired her visions. She was practically blind, At the time of the interview she was extremely nervous, almost to the point of hysteria, and no satisfactory answers to questions could be obtained from her. She denied that she knew where the boys, meaning the Barrows, obtained the guns. She de- nied that she did any shooting at Platte City, Missouri, She stated, however, that she was in the house on the outskirts of Joplin, Missouri, on April 1%,