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SL 7-429 ' They returned to ‘the car and the next stop he recalled was a bar which he later, being questioned by other agenta, determined to be in the 3500 block of Jefferson Street. He said that he just remembered going to snother ber and that the addrees was not his o=n independent recollection. He said they had a couple of drinks in the bar after which they called a cab which arrived in about fifteen minutes and which he believed to be a Yellow Cab. Thew Taft the rerntad Ford with the duffel hag Iscated in the ; sve ae Yaee e e wQVOStl An +22 trunk compartment and came downtown in St. Louis in the taxi looking for a luggage store. They finally found a store which was not yet open but which he believed would open soon as it was near 9:00 a.m. They, as wall as the taxi driver, went to a nearby bar and had two or three drinks. HALL left them in tha bar and went te the ‘luggage Place which was open by that time and purchased the two metal suitcases, which were found at the time of his arreat. He said the purpose of his obtaining the suitcases was to transfer the money to them from the duffelbag. He carried both the empty suitcases to the taxi, then went into the bar and came out with HEADY and the driver, the latter of whom placed the me suitcases in the trunk. They then returned to the bar where they left the rented Ford and dismissed the cab driver. They then drove ip the rented car to an alley in St. Louis where they transferred the money from the duffel bag to the two sujtcases. He recalled that the rope around the top of the duffel bag was tied so tight that it was necessary for him to out it with his «nife. This leads him to believe that he had not opened the duffel bag at any previoys time inasmoch aa it would have been necessary for him to have out the rope at such previous time, and even if he had succeeded in untieing tty he would not have tied it. back in such a hard knot. . ' + , He stated that the money filled both of the metal suitcases clear to the top and that it was necessary for him to remove the tray in one of them in order for it to hold the necessary money. He said that the suit— eases ware placed on the ground in the back of the car. He did not recall that a man and woman had tried to get by in a car and that it had been | necessary for him to move one of the suitcases, He put the duffel bag in - a garbage can in the ianusdiate vicinity of where the money was trans- ferred end then placed both the metal trunks in the automobile trunk and looked the lid. . They then drove a few blocks, at which place he threw & plastic cover, “which he estimated as being approximately three yards square and on which the duffel bag had been previously setting in the trunk, on top of a convenient garbage can. He aiso placed the cut rope on the garbage can. He did not teke any more money from the ransom wen “1 . mot ne ne — 7 see SUELO RE ether eet PP om inSt— nan