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me ee pm a ere oe ey Te ee ee + , ; “ee , ~f According to Davis, et about 9:30 or 10 ofclock on the morning of Time 16, 1933, Underhill, Clark, Brady end Davis held up ea benk at Black Rock, Arkansas, . Bailey was not with them due to the wound from which he was suffering... After the dank at Black Rock, arkansas, was robbed, Underhill, Rrady, Clerk and Davis fled: to a nearby riverbank and due to the pressure of the pursuit of local officers: — the four bandits were forced to leave a Yarge sack which they had secured from © "the bank and which they believed contained only silver. | It is understood that. later develommente have revealed. thet in this tere eack were also Regotiable i etrunents end several Giamonds,s pe ' Toh, we “ +3 . 7 we - "yr . + cr tte stu Wa - — tt appears “that at the tine of the ‘pobbery the ‘participants were cut off from their ear and were forced to walk in the swemps along the river's otge | during the remainder of the day in order to keep themselves undercover, During the evening of tho same day, according to the story of Davis, the bandits hired a farmer to drive them in a truck to a town within 20 miles of Black Rock, Ark., the identity, specific location and name of the town being mimown to Devise Qn the edge of this town they observed an individual driving into a eerece with ‘a S-passenger Plymouth car, at which time they approached the individual, - °° relieved him of the automobile in question; gave him €20.00 to be used for the .. necessary expense which would be Ancurred ‘y the individual | in recovering the , car subsequentlye ; rane ; we . Davis advised that they then 3 proceeded from thet point through vorious back roads in Northern Arkensas into the State of Oklahoma, where they passed . through Vinita, Okla., on the night of June 16, 1933, erriving in Oklehoma City, Okla., the following morning. On the following day they drove the Plymouth car to Bow leges, Okls., af oft field near * Renincles Oe. where oe. ear in ques= - Ston was ebandonede Ley gts “4% OL we sara Se notes thet in the ovent that Davis” etory is correct, Bevis, Clerk, “Underhill em Bredy were 2 .,in Oklahoma city, Okla., st the time the” massacre took place in Kansas City, Missourls me so na yo . fo further substantiate his claim, Davis stated that BOB BRADY enortly efter June 17, 1933, casbed several American Bankers Association cheques at. yarious towne in Oklahoma and Texas, these cheques having been taken in the. : Black Rock robbery. He stated that by tracing these various cheques his cone : _ tentions will be substentiated. Davis was insisteht that BAIIZY wes fn a home | in Oklahoma City, Okla., at this same time, although upm insistent questioning ~ he refused te reveal the location of the house in questions as a : y an feat ‘ ot tt wild be no ted in connection with this ‘robbery “that Bailey; ‘Daternil}, . L - bee Ri. “eo . Braty, “Clerk and Davis sent to the Governor of the State of Oklahoma a typewritten statement upon which were placed the fingerprints of each of the individuals in question, That statement alleged that the five individuale could not have been at the scene of the massacre at Kansas City, Mo., in view of the fact that they were engaged in escape after a bank robbery, Davis now states that Bailey was not a participent in the bank robbery at Black Rock, but that his signature and fingerprints merely were to attest the fact that be had knowledge that he and the others could not heve been in Kansas City.