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-2- be sent to a tourist camp at the junction of Highways 71 and 59, south of Platte City, Missouri as therewers some individuals in some cabins there that appeared to be suspicious, and the Sheriff of Platte County was not properly equipped to engage in a gun battle with any desperate criminals. The Sheriff's Office at Kansas City, Missouri, dispatched one of its armoured cars containing four (4) deputies, namely; Jim Thorpe, George Highfille, Lyle Smith and Mre Ryane These officers contacted the Sheriff of Platte County, Holt Coffey, De Re Oleavinger, the's Prosecuting Attorney, and Captain Baxter of the Missouri State Highway Patrole The Sheriff of Platte County subsequently called upon the parties in the cabins to come out, a gun battle ensued when the number as described above were wounded, and the members of the gang escaped. Upon learning of the above Special Agent in Charge Gus T. Jones and Agents Turrou and Brantley immediately went to the scene of the shooting on the previous nighte There County Prosecutor Cleavinger, Sheriff Coffey and Gaptain Baxter were contacteds Agent in Charge Jones, with Sheriff Coffey, Captain Baxter and Le Te Gordon, of the Identification Bureau of the Kansas City Police Department,made an inspection of the cabins occupied by the gang the pre- vious night. In these cabins were found five (5) Colt 45 automatic pistols, numbers 588676 575279 527651 615565 373995 and a Browning Automatic rifle number 252660; approximately 47 empty shells from cartridges used in the Browning Automatic Rifle; a pair of shoes; women's underwear; a pair of lounging pajamas which were blood soaked; and a medicine Gase apparently stolen from the automobile of some physician, ~ The doors and windows of the cabins (the cabins were of brick) were riddled with bullet holese There was blood in front of the garage door and in the garage of one of these cabins, indicating thet someone had been shote The stories of Sheriff Coffey, Captain Baxter and Cleavinger, in substance, seemed to be as follows: : % Sedan drove up containing five people and engaged two cabins at the tourist camp im question, which is operated by Mrs Houser.s These persons remained in the cabins almost all the time during the day of July 19th save that one woman, who has been identified es Mrs, Marvin Barrow, would go to the restaurant and purchase meals and drinks for five persons. From the best the officers could learn from Houser there were two men and three women in the party, although : J some said three men and two womene During the afternoon of July 19th one of the men, some say Clyde Barrow, and others say Hubert Bleigh, went to the drug On Tuesday night July 18, 1935, about 10 o'clock a Ford V-8 |