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Sane bats Sale A Siete his ieee wie ot oie Lats Ae oY rebates DA a Re PF | (Sea SL #7-h29 TI, STATEMENTS OF SUBJECTS A. STATEMENTS OF HALL I * foll interview with subject CARL AUSTIN HALL was conducted © ‘\ q\ by SA on October 7, 1953s > CARL HALL was interviewed at the llth District, St. Louis police - Department, at which time he advised he was born July 1, 1919 and that he. Y was an insurance salesman and had been living with BONNIE HEADY for several months in St. Joseph, Missouri. HALL was in a miserable physical condition and vomited and slipped out of his chair on several occasions, It was necessary to have a waste basket in front of him, and it could not be determined whether he was suffering from the effects of alcchol or whether the morphine was wearing off. He blackad out completely at 2:),0 a.m., and later was sent to the City Hospital. When he returned on a stretcher, he was still in a miserable physical condition. When he did revive to an extent, most of his answers to inquiries were mumbled and inarticulate words. When information was elicited from him, it was to the effect that the boy was well and should have bean released on Monday at Pittsburg, Kansas, in front of the Besse Hotel. At times he indicated the boy might be in Parsons, Kansas, with a TOM MARCH or TOM MARSH, who HALL indicated was ~ in the kidnapping and whose responsibility it was to take care of the child. eat ta ent see ee After continuous questioning, HALL seemed to break and indicated that the GREENLEASE boy was dead and was buried in HEADY'S backyard at 1201 South 38th Street, St. Joseph, Missouri. He indicated new fiowers had been planted over the spot where he had buried the GREENLEASE boy. HALL atated he had turned the boy over to a TOM MARCH shortly after he had met BONNIE HEADY near the Katz Parking Lot in Kansas City and that TOM MARCH was to take the GREENLEASE boy to the HEADY home in St. Joseph, Missouri. HALL advised that, upon returning to St. Joseph, Missouri, on October 5, ~~ 1953, with BONNIE HEADY, he had expected to find the TOM MARCH and the boy, and when he did not find them he went down to the basement and found that the GREENLEASE boy had been shot. A photograph of THOMAS JOHN MARSH, FBI No. 1121323, was exhibited to HALL, and he would neither identify nor eliminate him as the TOM MARSH or MARCH involved in the kidnapping. The following signed statement was obtained from HALL on October ? 7s 1953: "October 7, 1953 St. Louis, Missouri “I, CARL AUSTIN HALL, have talked with Chief of Police JEREMIAH O'CONNELL, Colonel LONG of the Police Board, Lieutenant LOUIS SHOULDERS, Chief of Police BRANNON and J. E. THORNTON of -15- STS GA MNT Tg ggg Re ere A NNO.