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P| Iowa, was secureds The officers secured the best description possible of this wooded sector, ani a number of men wre then placed at strategic points blocking all roadways and bridgese A party of about 15 officers formed in a "V" shape approached the Subjects’ camp. Due to the henry 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 Subjecta to surrender and their reply was a volley of shots. The attack was made shortly after daybreak on Monday July 24, 195%. The subjects a11 jumped into one oar and endeavored to mke a dash for freedomy however, were cunning enough not to use the regular rond through the woods but turned off on en unused wagon road, and immediately struck a hidden atump, unable to free this car one or two jumped into the second car which waa nearby and started to mike o dash down this same wegon road when they agein hit & stump, The subjects then split, and due to the heavy underbrush were able +o 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 that 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 Bloigh, crewled out of the woods into a neighboring cornfield, through the field to the farm house of Valley Fellers, fully a mile and a half from where the shooting took place, Here they held him up, stole hia Plymouth Sedan, end made their escape. an hour or so later they lost a tire on this car, and stole s Chevrolet Coach bearing lowe License plates number 77<15662, 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 ws immediately sent out over the radio by Er. Park Findley, Chief of the Iowa Buresu of Investigation, who then through the aid of an a@roplane searched the surrounding territorye Report that fleeing desperados had abandoned their car north of Pmora, lowe, along the river, lead a large posse to proceed to this section and make « search along the rivers Later, information wes received from the Ford Dodge, Iowe, Police Department that a few days before Subjects had robbed three oil stations in a row, and it had been learned by the Police Departments that Subjects had e hide= out near Sutherland, Iowa, which ws known to certain members of the force,