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=i- be sent to a tourist camp at the junction of Highways 71 and 59, south of Platte Gity, Missourl as there were 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 onrs containing four (4) deputies, nomely; Jim Thorpe, George Highfille, Lyle Smith and Mre Ryans These officers contacted the Sheriff of Platte County, Holt Coffey, De Re Cleavinger, ‘thes 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 nights There County Prosecutor Gleavinger, Sheriff Coffey ond Gaptain Baxter were contacteds Agent in Charge Jones, with Sheriff Coffey, Captain Baxter and Le T. 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 576279 527651 615365 S7S905 and a Browning Automatic rifle number 252660; approximately 47 empty shells from cartridges used in the Browning Automatic Rifle; a pnir of shoes; women's underwear; a pair of lounging pajamas which were blood sosked; and a medicine @ase apparently stolen from the automobile of some physician, = The doors and windows of the cabins (the cabins were of brick) were riddled with bullet holes, There wes blood in front of the garage door and in the garage of one of these cabins, indicating thet someone had been shot. The stories of Sheriff Coffey, Captain Baxter and Cleavinger, in substance, seemed to be as follows: . On Tuesday night July 18, 1955, about 10 o'clock a Ford V-8 Sedan drove up containing five people and engaged two cabins at the tourist camp in question, which is operated by Mire Houser, These persons remained in the cabins almost all the time during the day of July 19th save that one WOMAN , who has been identified as Mre, Mervin 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 end three women in the party, althouch some seid three men and two womens During the afternoon of July 19th one of the men, some say Clyde Barrow, and others say Hubert Bleigh, went to the drug