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Ba ST Seely rer tS a Zt Raa Bar EE aa WM PAE ord OS eat arate ab i ei ee Miter nal te oe Sh at nr ee Meade ie set ie Bee i OEE Ee, aoe ae? rd SL7~429 0, a : . oot en Ba the man $16,00 after which the man told him that he could get the suit the next day. He bought a Hickey-Freeman suit for $122.40 and gave me the check to pick it up which I still have. He gave his name as JOHN BURNS and said he was staying at the Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis. He ~: also “also purchased some shoes, some socks, some handerchiefs, five shirts ~ _and a hat. To my knowledge the suit has not yet been picked up. We — were in the store until after it closed, "Tt. was about 5:45 P.M. when we left Boyd's and started back ~ to Coral Courts. On the way back he mentioned that he wanted another _ girl that night as he did not want to stay by himself, I told him I~ would get him a good one. I was about to turn into the driveway at Coral Ccurts when he said, 'No, keep on going': We drove on past the court and he became very jittery. We stopped at a restaurant on MeKenzie Road for a sandwich, I noticed he ate very little of it. T never saw him eat much of anything. He then got to talking about the girl again. JI went in a phone booth and acted like I was calling a girl. He told me to tell her that he would give her $200 or $300.00. We then went back to Coral Courts. On the way back he got the jitters very bad and said, "When I get hunches, I'd better play “them. Something's wrong, we've got to move tonight’. But then he decided we should not move so we got the suitcases out of the car and all the way up the steps when a car pulled up behind my rented car and left the lights on. He became very nervous at this. I was scared too, because I thought it + Se na eta atten teneneeminmanin ain . ° “*- might be someone tailing him so I decided to get out of the way in case «-*” there was any gunplay. He. told me to put the trunks back in the car , : while he remained just inside the door of the room, JI carried them — ae dewn and locked them in the trunk, There were two people inthe car | | ae and they stayed several minutes after which they drove off, I went “ back up to the room and told him it wes the people downstairs, He said, 'I got the shakes, bad hunch, We've got to move tonight’. We got everything out of the room, leaving the key in it, leaving about 6:45 or 7:00 P.M. We drove directly to the apartment I had rented, On the way we passed Watson and Chippewa and he remarked, 'This looks | like the neighborhood where I parked the car I bought’. I told him I did not know he had bought a car, He said yet he had bought a car | and had rented another apartment and everything but that he had lost it | all} The car with the two suitcases in it and all his clothes. ‘We pulled in an alley next to the Town House and there was an old man. HALL asked him to get him a bellhop. The bellhop came and took the mage luggage in a push cart. He got a key and we took the elevator to the room.