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Soon after HAGER left, the bell boy returned with the one Coca — Cola, HALL thinks he tipped him fifty cents, Before HAGER left, he told HALL that when he returned he would rap three times on the door, WAGER was gone approximately thirty to forty minutes, When he calied the apartment to ask if everything was all right, HALL assured him everything was, Within a very few minutes, HALL heard the three knocks at tra door and, presuming it was HAGER, opened the main door as well as a xtmtter-type door to the apartment, omen, one of Whom’ was in uni- fom, the other in plain clothes, rushed into the apartment, The man in uniform had a ~1stol in his hand, The plain clothes man advised HALL that he was-urder arrest, HALL asked him what for, but was told to sit dewn on the bed and that he would be told later. B *h men proceeded to leok around the apartment and the big man in plain clothes entered the closet where the two metal cases had been placed. HALL said he remen—- berad thinking right then that the jig was up. He said he thought he heard the sound of one of the cases being opened. He stated that immediately on entering the room, the big man had taken the keys to the cases from his, HALL'S, breast pocket. He stated, however, on leaving the closet, the plain clothes man made no mention of any discovery he haa made and said absolutely nothing about any money, which made HALL Yee) that perhaps he had not opened one of the bags and was still un- awere that the cases-contained the ransom money. After searching for nx short while, HALL noted that the big-man “in piain clothes left the apartment briefly. “The writer asked if the big man had ‘any luggage in his hand when he left, whereupon HALL replied that he definitely had not cavried any luggage, and timt if he chad anything in his hand at that time, he seemed to remember that it wap the bogus identification papers fur- nished him by HAGER, When the ‘big man returned after only a moment's absence, he Red nat ave tho naners in bie hen if Pee ements tater the 7ffinene G19 ROL Dave tne PSpPers UN Mis NENG, A TER MOMENTS iav|er, ie oliicers took HALL from the apartment. “HALL estimates that the search could not have lasted more than ten minutes in all and that doring that entire period nothing was said about money, the kidnapping, or why he was being arrested, On entering the hall from the apartment, the big man, later, determined by HALL to be Lieutenant SHOULDERS, advised him that it would be necessary to take him down to the station and that they would take him by the back stairs and the back door so that if he checked out all Fignt, he would not have been embarrassed before the other hotel guests, The uniformed policeman then took HALL by the arm and led him down the hall to the extreme rear of the building. On the way down, HALL happened PROPER Cath? MRO ose TC Tice ennai Ef —— a :