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-ll- Securing permission of Special Agent in Charge VYetterli to proceed to Sutherland, Iom, which is in the northern part of Iom, within the Ste» Paul office territory, Agent then formed a posse of about 14 men and went to Sutherland, Iowa, which lies in a very rugged part of tho State, After arrival in this vicinity efter dark ani investigating the territory, and finding it impossible to make a satisfactory search at night, this Agent, with the assistance of State Agont Arthur ani Us S» Marshali Fred Hird, of [ Des Moines, formed into three groups, and at dey break scoured a large aren in an effort to locate tho Subjects who had osoaped, The previous camping spot used by Subjects on Sunday, July 16, 195%, was found and Sub jects apparently were not_roturning thereto. The trail thereupon hea ving been lost and no further reports received as to the whereaboute of the fleeing subjects, Agent telephoned to Acting Agent in Charge Coulter, of the 58, Paul Bureau Office, advising him of the occurance of the previous day, and asking him to get word out over the redio, and to the Sheriffs in the Southern part of Minnesota in the belief that the Subjects were mking for that State, Agcompanied by State Agent William Arthur investigation was made at Spencer, and Algona, Iowa, in effort to verify that subjeets had been seen in those towns on Monday afternoon, July 24th, the day of the shooting, but no definite information could be obtained. At Luverne, Iowa, Agent and ir, Arthur interviewed Dave Gardner, who operates the Shell Filling Station on the edge of town. He advised that about 12:15 Monday noon, July 24th, a 1950 Chevrolet Coach raced down the road and stopped at his station and ordered ten gallons of gos. The car was driven by « party who had his left arm in a sling; a womn aat beside him in the front seat, end a man was lying down in the back seat. Gardner stated be became suspic. ue of these parties as they did not shut off their motor, end he wes afraid they were going to run off without paying him, so he noticed their license number and later wrote it down. ‘The car then sped out of town going east on a rather unused Later then the Sheriff was in town, Gardner happened to mention the above inci- dent, and upon producing the license number he had written down it wes found to correspond with the license number on the Allbright car, namely, #77=-15662, ‘The only difficult part to understand about Gardner's story was thet he noticed no blood on the occupants of the car except a little on the chin of the driver, All reports up to this time indicated that subjects were 21) badly wounded and it was not believed that they could drive that fears This Agent and Stete Agent Arthur returned to Des Moines, Iowa, and there interviewed Blanche Barrow, the wife of Marvin Barrow, at the City Jails Blanche gave her father en Ms F. Caldwell, at Dalles, Tems, and her mother Mires Lillian Marcum, Wilma, Texas. She claimed to have married Marvin Barrow on July 5, 1951, at Idabei, Oklahoma, She further steted that when Mervin was