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Dee raantk ak Dagienage atthe ET atin tinanemnes aN SET , . . . a- last few weeks he paid by the weeks When quwstioned reletive to the telephone. -ealle from Jackson 7075, Kanses Citys Missouri, to his home in April, he =. denied any knowledge of the calla and claimed to have been in Hot Springs .-:.. at that time, However, it is noted that Farner coulé have been in Hot oo Springs for seven weeks prior to 6«12-53 and not have been absent from his home on the dates of the callse He claimed that no one wae at his hom i‘ during his absence except his brother-in-law and sister, Mre and Mrae Charles .. Chandler of Joplin, who spent some days at bis home while Chandler was 5°... making repairs about the house Farmer advised that while at Bot Springs he was visited part of the time by Brock Keenan and Ed Coulter, ganblerse Although Farmer hed previously stated that he could not recall when he had seen Frank Naeh and that be had never had enything to do with Naeh, he subsequently admitted that he had seen Nash on numerous ‘oocasione during his. last vieit to Hot Springs and that Hash frequently went to a roadhouse om as parties at which Farmer and his wife were presents Hash was known a8 “Doo? Tae Farmer denied having seen Nash on the Mondsy before bis return to Jopling ~~ but did atate that he hed seen Dick Galetas on that daye His first story was thet at that time Galatas told him he was coming to Joplin and tht he wont to. the airport when he saw an Arkansas plane, thinking possibly Galatas had coms . in it, Later he admitted the receipt of the phone call from Hot Springs as — - - pelated abovee Farmer stated that he had no idea why Mrae Nash and Galatas — had cane to his homte His only explanation wae that Mrse Hash desired to — leave Hot Springs because of the arrest of Hath, When confronted with the . information that Mrs. Farmer had revealed the destination of Mrs, Neches «= St. Louis, Farmer admitted that he hed heard that was her destinations He stated that he did not know whether she decided to go to Bt. Louis after receiving news of the killing of Nash or note _ me Farmer insisted that he had been nowhere except the Missours Hotel in Eanses . a, City and his home in the period between 6-17-35 and 7aS-SSe a Mre. Esther Farmer was interviewed et the Foderal Building in Jopling = = > simultaneously with the interview with her husband, by Special agents Dwight ~ Brantley and Le G. Turrous oe Oe ea Esther Farmer stated that her maiden name is Esther Mercer and that she was”. reared et Joplin, Missouri, and that her father is Se Ne Mercer, 6 tailor ‘with - Connelly Tailor Shop in Joplin; that she married Herbert Farmer about nine : . years ago, has no children and prior to that time was married to a man by the Roy nam of Julius A» Johnson of New York whom she divorced sixteen years ago, the @ivyorce having been obtained at Carthage, Missauri, the county seate {here were no children by this marriagee ae 2 a Fy She stated that she has lived elms t continually in Joplin and vicinity since