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stated that his only purpose in purchasing the used car was to avert any possible suspicion when he. ‘and HEADY arrived at any apartment of other living quarters they were able to obtain. He placed the ouitcases in the back seat of the Nash and they drove a few blocks and parked. They walked to a nearby bar stopping briefly at a drug store to purchase a morning paper. They went into the _ bar and a woman at the bar helped them find an advertisement of an apartment for rent in the vicinity of their location at the time. lhey picked one out, he telephoned the landlady and told her they would be over right away to look at it. The lady barkeeper gave them directions as to how to reach the apartment. It was not: °4r from the bar. ‘they found it fit and paid $20 rent in advance plus a $5 deposit for the key. He estimated that they arrived at the apartment at approximately 11:36 | a.m. or 12 noon. He said that HEADY was "well looped” by that time and that he had to help her in the apartment. He explained to the landlady that his wife was 111.. HALL carried the suitcases into the apartment. ons at a time because they were so heavy he was unable to carry both of ‘them at the same time. He estimated that the large one weighed between forty and fifty pounds and that the smaller one weighed between thirty and thirty-five pounds. He dropped HEADY on the bed and she immediately went to sleep. HALL laid down for a few minutes and may have dozed briefly but did not believe he had gone to sleep. He was thinking of getting rid of the money because he could never tell what HEADY would do in her condition. The possibility of her doublecrossing him never entered his mind because he did not believe she could stay sober long enough tothink out a plan for doublecrossing him. He said that she was very unstable and erratic and might see a man out on the street she liked, invite him in, and give him a thousand doliars. He then decided to abandon the red Nash. He left the bags in the apartment after which he left and abandoned the Nash a few blocks from the apartment. He then called a Yellow Cab and went to a bar, location unknown, where he wrote a letter to BARNEY PATTON and enclosed four or five hundred dollars. He stated that PAITON had been instrumental in securing his parole. and had befriended him on many occasions, and that he considered that he owed PATTON a debt which he could never repay. Ye had obtained the envelope from the bartender and mailed the letter at a nearby mail box. ’ 93- 4 cap tenes weer a