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a oe a artes Hibbard Se a * sc) | | A SL #7-li29 — D. HERMAN JOSEPH DRESTE ~ On October 8, 1953, Mr. JOSEPH COSTELLO, Owner of the Ace Cab Company, 19th and Washington Avenues, advised a that records of this company indicate that at approximately 1:90 pem., Uctdber 6, 1953, lb 1c their dispatcher received a call from an individual who gave her name as Viss G'DAY and stated she was at 1000 Hampton Avenve or the Yankee Grill. ; The dispatcher directed Ace Cab 15), which was operated on that date by | I ESTE, to that address. COSTELLO advised that DRESTE, an extra i i ne the past two years, resided at Q. the basis of the above information, and b SA ea approximately 10:30 pem., on October 8, 3, locate Va. DRESTE at his residence, DRESTE admitted driving SANDRA O'DAY from St. Louis to Kansas City on October 6, 1953, in his personally owned automobile, a 1949 4-door Chevrolet Sedan; black in color bearing Missouri license 566-07. This automobile which was parked in the front of DRESTE'S residence was searched by the contacting agents and nothing was found therein pertinent to this investigation. DRESTE accompanied the above agents to the St. Louis Office and was fingerprinted and photographed. He furnished the following signed statement concerning his complete activities in connection with SANDRA O'DAYs tet Toc Vic wo AMI MA October 8, 1953 Aes Oura "I, HERMAN JOSEPIMQRESTE, St. Louis, — Missouri, make this voluMary and truthful statement to YC) we: aecrcorsansine® whom I know to be Special Agents of the . BI. No promises or th.eats have been made to me to make this statement and ] make it of my own free will, knowing that it could be used against me in a court of law. I have Deen advised that if I desire I may retain counsele , "My name is HERMAN JOSEPH DRESTE. I was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 26, 1912. I am married and have a daughter, age nines I have been in the employee of the Ace Cab Company, St. Louis, as a substitute cab driver for about three years. : "YJ wish to state that on October 6, 1953, about noon I received a radio call from the Ace Cab Company dispatcher to pick up a. fara at the Yankee Grill, 1000 Hampton. Upon arrival at the Yankee Grill I went to the door and was met by a female whose photograph I have recently seen in the St. Louis Post Dispatch ang whom I identify as SANDRA O'DAY. SANDRA O’DAY told me that she wanted me to take -171- ENTREE TN (nn REE TPF W Oe eee ea Sa TT 2 a I seen