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-B- fused. Dr. Eberle further stated that he questioned this woman sbout how she happened to receive the burns and she stated « gasoline camp stove had exploded while they were staying in & camp ground in Tllinois six weeks before. Dr. Eberle also steted that during the time he wes bandaging the woman, he asked her her name and where she was from; that she started to say something when one of the other women put her hand over her mouth. Dr. Eberle became suspicious of these parties from this action and was planning on notifying the Sheriff on jis return but overlooked doing so. He further stated that he noticed a tattoo of a heart and an arrow with the name of Roy or Ray underneath on the turned woman's right thigh. He also stated that this wamn had a recent cut on her chin of about lj inches long end thet the burns were not over two weeks old. He advised thet he wes paid by a man, whose photo he identified as Clyde Barrow, and that this man had a broken nose as if it had been done in e recent sceident. — Agent was unable to interview Mrs. Harry Rogers, the wonsn who was attacked and raped at her home at Winslow, Arkansas. Mrs. Rogers is at present confined in the Generel Hospital, Fort Smith, in s serious cendition end Agent was advised by Dr. Everett Stevenson, attending physician, that an interview at the present time might be fatal to her as she is in a very hysterical condition ani suffering from internal injuries. Sheriff John B. Willisms, Fort Smith, srkanses, atated that he had not- ified all hospitals and doctors to be on the lookout for «= woman anawering the description of the burned woman, Sheriff A. D. Maxey, Van Buren, Arkanesss, stated that on the late after- noon of June 23, 1935 he received « call from the Fayetteville Police to be on the lookout for two men in a Yori V-8 Coach with an Indiana license; that they had held up a store in that city; that be notified his deputy sheriff at Alma, Mr. A. HN. Salyer, and town marshal Humphrey of Alm to be on the lookout for them; that Salyer and Humphrey drove out on + way toward Fayetteville end that about t+iree miles north ef Alma they encountered two men in thia V-& Ford where they had hed an eccident ond smashed the car; that as soon as the officers approached this ear and stopped, the two men in the car opened fire with shotguns end killed Humphrey; that Salysr got out of his ear end jumped into a ditch for protection as +he two men ran and jumped into Salyer's car and drove off, Selyer firing his rifle at the fleeing car; that later that evening these two men abandoned Salyer's car about two or three miles north of Van Buren and held up « Mr. and Mrs. Mark Loftin of Fort Smith, who were driving on the highway, and took their car away fran them; that this car was later found abandoned at Montevista, two miles south of Van Buren; that on June 24, 1935 these two mn ettemted to stenl a car fram the home of Mes, Harry Rogers, two miles south of Winslow, Arkansas; thet Mrs. Rogers, who was alons at her hom at the time, refused to give them the keys to this car whereupon both men brutually beat her with « chain and then reped her. Sheriff Vaxey stated that the photographs of Glyde and Melvin Barrow, which he had secured from the Joplin Police Department, were positively identified by tres, Rogers as being the two men who attacked her; also that these two men were positively iden- ———— — es = alt