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FIND ABANDONED(CAR OF BARROWSANG, NEBRASKAticimh For fleeing Barrow GangShifted To ilocky Mountain ltegioiu(By United Press.)The scene oi a week-oin relent*: /ess pursuit—one of the most spec-; lacular ever held in this section of j the country—for the fleeing remnant oi.. the notorious Barrow brothers’ gang shifted to the Rocky mountain regions today.The remaining members oi the mob that left a crimson trail on a’ crime journey through the south-; west and mid-west, were believed hiding in Wyoming with special posse of western police and U. S. department of justice agents scour- ; Ing their fliglit-route for clues. iThe cold trail left behind in Iowa after the trio had blazed i their way to freedom through heavily armed peace officers at; Dexter, la., last Monday flamed j anew late yesterday when the fugi- i tives’ stolen car was found aban- j doned at Broken Bow, Neb. iThe automobile, stolen from1 George Allbright, Polk City, la., j filling station attendant, was found : containing bloody rags and a bill- ‘ fold enclosing pictures of the Bar- I row boys and one of Pretty Boy j Floyd, dangerous Oklahoma out-! law and killer.Identity of the car was made at. Des Moines, la., through Park * In (I ley, chief of the slute criminal investigation bureau, who checked] the serial numbers of the automobile’s motor vyltli those in the state licsuse records.When found, the license plates hpd been stripped from the auto-; mobile, indicating that the gang may make use of them later on in their flight.Federal agents traced the flight of the gang to Stockton, Kans., out of Iowa by way of Council Bluffs, i and Omaha, when the fleeing ban- j dits crossed the Missouri river bridge at a breakneck speed with | Iowa officers ut their heels. From . the Kansas site, the bandits then j doubled back into Nebraska and. continue! on their way to Wyo- [ mJng and Denver.Reports there suid that the Texas phantoms had eluded an- ]other carefully planned trap and were cither in the confines of Wyoming peaks or hiding with ■ friends in the Denver underworld, yMeanwhile, federal authorities questioml© Hubert Bleigh arrested j near Seminole, Okla., yesterday as '; an alleged member of the gang. | He was first credited with being Jack Sherman, who was reported wounded.Oklaho/nu reports said that an-j thovitics there hurl a snapshot i showing Bleigh and the Barrow j hroUtcrs (Clyde and Marvin) at. Platte City, Mo. But they were 1111- j decided whether Bleigh was the , Jack 81101011111” who escaped with j Clyde and Bonnie Parker Burrow earlier at Dexter, la.Two of the gang are in custody | —Marvin at Perry- la., where lie j lias been given little chance for life from infected bullet wound,. J and his wife. Blanch at Platte City, ! Co., held on charges of assault with intent to kill In connection i with the gang's machine gun ■ sklrpitydi with officers there morn I than n week ago. JmFncoulea*hcMithewhG1Set\Tinbuupname:tiioereMo8tablanTtioitomepusTingerabeefartvalanfin;*2.(thewii1theiaiwooinICOofniiCaisulIHenoiwilbaian:resDes Mollies, in., July 28.—I TP) —Possibility that Churles Arthur (Pretly Boy) Floyd, the south-west's most nooLrioiiK outlaw, is n mem her of the fugitive Barrow brothers’ gang was announced here late today by federal and state police officials.The Oklahoma two-gun man entered the mn/.e of clues liciric checked here with wind from Broken Bow. Neb., authorities I hat a picture of the most hunted killer in the southwest was contained in a bloodstained billfold found in the abandoned bandit, car at thatpi a 1denplijun u nlhlt;ofD1 i.t All
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Oelwein Daily Register
Oelwein, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 28, 1933
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