The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-17
DEPT. OF JUSTICE
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 as 1t did, had 1t not been for | "Ma's' brains,
 She and her younger son fol- lowed in death q list of public enemies which grew more impress siVe almost week by week, as the governments battle against the un- derworld gathered momentum. The operatives under !. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of in- vestigation, first captured Frank Nash, Harvey Bauley, Machine gun" Kelly and Albert Bates, as vicious a quartette, perhaps, as ever engaged in crime. They also caught many lesser desp peradu, but the crime wave early last year seemed to continue unabated, So the federal officers changed their methods. They began to shoot to kill.
 In quick succession they moved down John Dillinger, Pretty Boy" Floyd and "13abyface" Nelson.
 Local and state authorities emu lated the straight-shooting federal men. They shot. and killed Clyde Barrow, and his cigar smoking par- amour, Bonnie Parker. Then they slew Tommie Carroll and Homer Van Meter.
 Search Florida Miami, Florida, January IF = (UP) --- Department of Justice agents searched for surviving mem bers of the Barker-Karpis gang in Florida today, convinced that only circumstance prevented them from trapping all in the Ockiawaha cot- tage where yesterday they killed Fred Barker and his mother, Mrs Kate Barker, e5, in a three-hour gun battle.
 Men identified as Al Karpis and Arthur (Doc) Basker, brother of the slain Fred. leaders of the gang, were seen visiting the cottage dur. ing the past three weeks. It was believed the agents thought they were there when they surrounded 1t yesterday.
 The garker-Karpis gang is ac. cuscd of kidnaping Edward C.. Brenfer, St Paul banker, and other crimes. Department of Justice agents said Mrs Barker. who has no police record, was the "brains" of the gang.
 The small group of federal agents were reinforced by 10 county police. They surrounded the cottage, demanded surrender. in. stead invoked 0 burst of machine gun fire. They took up posts be- hind trees and fired bursts of shells into the house internationally for three hours. The house then appeared quiet. After hurling in some tear gas bombs. the agents broke in and found Mrs Barker and her son dead. Mrs Barker. the agents said. had fallen over her machine gun.
 l Joplin, Mo, January 17--(UP)-- George Barker, 60. had nothing to say when informed of the slaying of his wife, Mrs Kate (Ma) Bar ker. and his son. Fred, 32, by fed- eral agents in Ccklawaha, Fla. yesterday. ( Barker. caretaker at a tourist camp. said only, that he was not connected in any way with the ac. tivities of Mrs Barker and his four sons.
 | Three Face Murder
 Ottawa, III. January 17--(UP) l- Three of four bandits who yes. terday attempted to rob bank al
 Leonore, Ill, with aubseQuent elay- ing of two pursuers and suicide oi the fourth robber, will be charged with murder. Kidnapping and bank robbery before Q grand jury Mon- day.
 l States Attorney Elmer Mohar delayed presentation of their cases
 to the jury today to await out. Charles Seipp, La Sale county su- nore bank, and Arthur Thilen oi Rockford, III, one of the bandits
 Both men were wounded critic ally.
 Sheriff Glenn Axline of Marshall fer of the Leonore State Bank, were killed in a 25.niile pursuit of the 1 bandits. Melvin Leist, 4E-year-old Rockford gang leader. killed him self with machine gun when trapped.
 Deputy Sheriff Brown of Mar. shall County, wounded when Axiine was killed, and Norbert Maas. 15- year.oId farm boy, seized by the bandits as q hostage and wounded by pursuers were recovering. The other bandits held were Fred Gerner. 26, of Rockford, and John Hauff, 27, Chicago. Bundy surprised three of the gangsters in his bank yesterday morning. They apparently had eh.. tered by coal chute. They fled | with a fourth man outside. Burdy was killed and Seipp wounded in firing few minutes later. Axline and Brown, his chauffeur. were shot when they caught up with the men about 12 miles south of Leo. ! nOre.