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baie it abe cis cae a i vd AS. ¥ * re th Mia ed sa ‘ cay oy SL #7-h29 DRESTE advised that the luggage which he purchased for O'DAY at Packwood Luggage, 7th and Olive, was a matching set of Samsonite luggage. The color he deseribed as being natural or light beige. It consisted of a ladies'overnight bag or cosmetic case, approximately 15" by 10" by 6" .. in size and a ladies' valise 27" by 25" by 5" imsize. He recalls that sh locked both pieces of luggage after packing them, there being one key for =2a3 each piece of luggage. She retained the key. Puring the trip from St. | Louis to Kansas City both pieces of luggage were piaced in the back seat | of his car, O'DAY sitting in the front seat during the cours: of the whole” trip. The only time he observed her open luggage cccurred on the outskirts of St. Louis immediately before or after their stop for gasoline purchase - and luneh at Clayton Road and Lindbergh Blvd. At that time she unlocked the’ smaller piece of luggage and appeared te remove the money she had previously placed therein and put it in her purses. DRESTE explained that O'DAY removed both pieces of luggage when she left his cab in Kansas City, Mo. At “ no time during the trip did he observe her in the back seat with the luggag ie, and even during the times they stopped for purchasing gasoline or eating he i: was not absent from the car long enough to provide her opportunity of handizi the luggage without being observed by him. DRESTE estimatedthat he drove SANDRA O'DAY in St. Louis in the .ce Cab a total of eight or nine miles. He advised that he drove a total of approximately 50 or 60 miles in the Ace Cab in the St. Louis area on October 6, 1953. He explained that he has no recollection of any of the addresses or fares to which he was dispatched by radic prior te picking up SANDRA .O'DAY. He usually reports to work at the Ace Cab Company at approximtely 6:45 aeme and consequently assumes that he started work on October 6th at about that hour. He does recall that prior to picking up- SANDRA O'DAY at . noon on that day he answered two or three radio calls and several pickups, ‘ the numbers of which he does not recall, DRESTE advised that after picking up O'DAY at 12:00 noon on . October 6, 1953, and making the one stop for the purchase of glue at the.- drugstore on Market and Ewing Avenues, he proceeded to the address in the 2100 block of North 9th Street. He arrived at that address at approximately 12:25 pems He remained there approximtely 5 minutes waiting for O'DAY | and her aunt. At approximately 12230 pem-e, the latter entered his cab — and he transported them to Lane Bryant's arriving there at approx mately 12:45 pems There upon, he immediately returned to the Ace Cab Company, arriving: there at approximately 12:55 p.m. He remained at the Ace Cab Compan for approximately 15 or 20 minutes checking in the cab. At approximately 1:15 p.m, hea obtained his own automobile and dreve to dcewmtom St. Louis after which he purchased luggage at Packwood. Immediately after purchasing: the luggage, he drove in his personally owned automobile to the 2100 block peter ot SNE 2 EO ES A TE eS ST PIE — RN I Pn