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ern robe ties Ae ES te baba Ate” SL 7-29 instance am tne taxi trip been locxed in the trunk compartment of the : taxi cab. © paid the Laclede Cab driver forty dollars and entered HAGER's sab, € believed this was about 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. on the L ad afternoon of October 5, 1953. HAGER drove him to a cheap section of town and during the ie rides asked if HALL intended to spend the night with the girl and where 3 he wanted to go. HALL told him he didn't «now where, but he might stay ture awn ¢thnee wi ahtea amd that he wanted UANTD ¢” atin with hie with the RO OP Viites Higiive, Gis Viidh He WEES G NaAuo VO Stila Witn O81 Wit vit eab and gave him $100. Down in the slum section mentioned, HAGER left the cab to get the girl who he introduced on her arrival as SANDY. HALL hac not given HAGER his name at that time. They entered the cab, after dri'*ng a short distance, stopped and entered a bar where HALL, SANDY OMAY. ond HAQRR hal annrovimately tun Arinive: nianoe While there. HAL! Ww Bs CAUANA SEFR Se FAS Te a ee wre Lk eeu a Te Whew de 5 MAM asked the bar keeper for a pencil, some paper, and an envelope, with which he wrote a note to HEADY. HALL paid the liquor bill with a $20 bill and gave the change to HAGER, estimating it to be between $15 and 2 $16. He recalled that while in the bar HAGER indicated to him he was suspicious of him being 2a law enforcement officer. He recalled thinking that quite amsing at the time. They left the bar and started out for the place where they were to spend the night. 1 Lie = 4 _4 Ng sail ead l 1 On the way HALL realized he had not recently shaved so he asked HAGER to obtain some shaving squninmment forhin After driving 2 while Si SV Seo SVS Sree aise Sige epee are ee i ewe l Ullal le ohn they stopped at a drug store and HALL noted a Laclede Cab sitting diagonally across the street. He gave the letter he had written in the bar to HAGER and told him to have the cab driver deliver it to HEADY. HAGER took the note to the cab driver and gave him the instructions, after which he entered ‘the drug store and. purchased @ razor and some shaving ' if 2 cream, On HAGER's emerging from the “drug store a traffic policeman > accosted him and bawled him out for parking in a no parking zone. HALL stated he was quite frightened and it was a great effort for him to | try to appear normal in the presence of the officer. The policeman let HAGER go with merely abawling out, after which they continued toward their destination. They made one more stop at a liquor store for a fifth of whiskey. . } LY H 7 + They arrived at Coral Court at about 4:30 to 5:00 p.m., according to HALL's best judgement. He sent HAGER in to see if there were apy vacancies and HAGER returned stating that there were. HALL then went if and registered. He was unable to recall the name used. He recalled being pleasantly surprised at the rate, which was $5.50 per day, as he said he had been in places on the west coast that ran as high as $17 per day