# Barker hideout in Florida, with an inset of weapons recovered by agents (FBI, January 1935)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-barker-weapons-cache-1935/

Composite image on the FBI's Barker/Karpis case page: the Florida house where the FBI says Fred and Kate Barker were killed on 16 January 1935, with an inset of weapons recovered afterward. The weapons are not itemized. No copy is stored here.

The FBI's caption reads: "The Florida home (right) where 'Doc' and 'Ma' Barker were killed in a shootout with Bureau agents. Inset: The cache of Barker weapons recovered by agents after the firefight." The inset shows long guns and other items laid out on the steps of the house. The page does not list them, and this page does not.

The caption is inconsistent with other text on the same FBI page. The page puts Arthur "Doc" Barker's arrest in Chicago on 8 January 1935 and the Florida shootout on 16 January 1935, which it says killed Fred and Kate Barker. This page repeats neither version of the caption as fact; it files the image as the FBI's own description of a recovered cache.

**Object:** Composite photograph: a house and an inset of recovered weapons  
**Maker:** not applicable  
**Date:** 16 January 1935  
**Provenance:** recovered by Bureau agents; the page gives no inventory or chain of custody  
**Appears in:** FBI, History: Cases and Criminals, Barker/Karpis Gang

## Sources

- FBI, History: Cases and Criminals (Barker/Karpis Gang): https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/barker-karpis-gang