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es —- UNITED STATES BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT DALLAS, TEXAS St. Louis FitzNo. 26-3740 REPORT MADE ATi REPT MAGE oF: St, Louis, Mos M. 8. Rhodes He Tr CHARACTER OF CAsE) CLYDE CHAMPION BARROW, alias Roy Bailey, ET AL. [National Motor Vehicle Theft Act Photographs of Clyde Champion Barrow and others 2 iain lima in exhibited to C, F. Merrifield, Cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Mexico, Mo., and Ben Dobyns of that city, a customer of above bank, who wore present at 2:15 P. M. om 6-14-33 when the bank was robbed. They are unable to identify Sub- jects as those staging the holdup. P. Report of Special Agent ¥. ¥. Allen, St, Louis, Missouri, 68-1-33, DETAILS; AT MEXICO, MO. The photographs of Clyde Champion Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Buok Berrow and wife, ond Hubert Bleigh were exhibited by agent to Mr. C. F. iferri- field, Gashier of the Farmers and Merchants Benk, and Mr, Ben Dobyns, proprietor of Dobyns' Cafe, Mr, Merrifield stated that he was the only employee of the bank who was in the bank at 2:15 on June 14, 1933, when the place was held up; that Mr. Dobyns, one of the bank's customers, entered the bank s few seconds after the rob- “$%s entered, and was immediately covered with revolvers; that Dobyns was present during the holdup. Messrs. Merrifield and Dobyns, sfter carefully examining the photographs of Subjects, stated that they could not identify these Subjects as being the persons who staged the holdup. Mr. Merrifield stated that the photo- graph. of Clyde Barrow somewhat resembled one of the men, but he would not state for a fact that this was the man he had in mind, He further edvised that he could APPROVED AND PORWARDED: COPIES OF THIS 2 Division 2 Dallas 2 St. Louis ee ee ‘te