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Iowa, was secureds The officers secured the best description possible of this wooded sector, and a number of men wore then placed at strategic points blocking all roadways and bridges. A party of about 15 officers formed in a "V" shape approached the Subjects’ camp. Due to tho heavy underbrush, it was not believed advisable to completely surround the subjects for fear the officers would shoot at one another, and the further fact that the open, or north aide of the "V" was pro- tected by a rivers The officers approached and called upon the Subjects to surrender ond their reply was a volley of shots. The attack was made shortly after daybreak on Mondey July 24, 195%. The subjects all jumped into one oar and endeavored to mke a dash for freedom, however, were cunning enough not to use the regular road through the woods but turned off on an unused wagon road, and immediately struck a hidden atump, unable to free this car one or two jumped into the second car which was nearby and started to mke o dash down this same wegon road when they again hit @ stump. The subjects then split, and due to the heavy underbrush were able to Crawl out of sight. However, the officers pursued and finally overtook Marvin Barrow and his wife after the former was wounded and entrenched behind a fallen trees Several of the officers, hearing no further bhooting, left their posts of duty along the road believing thet the subjects had been killed as fully 1000 shote were fired. However, Clyde Berrow and his alleged wife, Bonnie Parker, and Jack Sherman, believed to be Hubert Bleigh, crewled out of the woods into a neighboring cornfield, through the field to the farm house of Valley Fellers, fully a mile and a helf from where the shooting took place. Here they held him up, stole his Plymouth Sedan, and mde their escape. An hour or so later they lost a tire on this car, and stole a Chevrolet Coach bearing Iowa License plates number 77215662, from the George Allbright farm located about five miles north of Polk City, lowe. During the rest of the morning numerous reports were received from the surrounding section that Subjects and the car hed been seen. The escape of these subjects was immediately sent out over the = radio by Mr. Park Findley, Chief of the Iowa: Bureau of Investigation, who then through the eid of an a@roplane searched the surrounding territorye Report that fleeing desperados had abandoned their car north of Pmora, Iowa, along the river, lead a large posse to proceed to this section and meke s search slong the rivers later, information wes received from the Ford Dodge, Iowa, Police Department that a fow days before Subjects had robbed three oi] stetions in a , row, and it had been learned by the Police Departments that Subjects had a hide~ | ~ out near Sutherland, Iowa, which ws known to certsin members of the force. aed =