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a ae her marriage to Farmer, tut off end on abe and her husband for short periods of time have lived in places other than Joplin, namely, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Kansas City, Missouri; that about three yecrs ago she an’ her husband Lo lived at Hot Springs for a short time and moved back to Joplin, going again to Hot Springs on tw or more occasions for short periods of time, the exact _ dates she ie unable to remambere With reference to the residence of herself end husband in Kanses City, she anid that during the sumer of lisse they resided in Kansas City and her husband hed charge of a gambling concern at the Hollywood Night Club which was operated by an Italian whose name abe does not know; that in this enterprise her husband was associated with e man by the name of Doby (thie ie the way she spelled it}e ree She stated that in Hot Springs her husband gambled and knew quite a mumber of - people whose names she cannot recall, but she did say that he was on quite | intimate terms with a gaubler at Hot Springs by the name of Jackie Smith, who operated a bookmaking place theres ste emphatically stated that her husband a had for a long time earned his living gamblinge _ ne She said that while in Kansas City in the sumer of 1952 they lived at the prake Hotele In this connection Farmer stated that he and hie wife lived for. a while at the Drake Hotel and at the Pickwick Hotels Mre. Famer seid thet =~ - she is not engaged in any business at all and spends most of her time at their farm bome near Joplin ettending to housekeeping and marketing of chickens, ...—.. milk, butter and 6g28e She said thé she was never arrested beforee She stated that at the time she married her husband she did ‘not know that he had served, a. term in the penitentiary, but only learned it since her marriages She said ‘i that she end her husband heve been living on the farm for about six yeer@e > :. Esther Farmer Was questioned as to her whereabouts immediately prior to and .. . on 6-16-33 and 6-1] 7550 she stated that she ani her husband went to Kamen City, Missourl, for 4 visit, traveling in their Cadillac Seden, and remained | about three weeks, returning to Joplin on Tuesday, 6-15¢55; that while in 2 Kaneas City they stopped at the Drake Hotel and also visited som friends, t Homer Roberts, whose address sbe would not furnish. She stated that immediately upon their return from Kaneas City she and her husband went to the farmin Joplin; that on the following Wednesday, which would be 614955, she went to Joplin, purchased groceriese She was in Joplin again on Thuraday, 691555, | and agein went to Joplin on Friday, 6-16+33,and that evening went to Hebb city to visit Farmer's mother and spent the evening with her mother-in-law, returning to the farm late in the evenings eS Os “ei ‘Yrs. Farmer was asked ebout teleshone calls received at her home on the after- — noon and evening of 6-16-35 from a Mra. E. Be Conner at Hot Springs, Arkansase When first questioned she genied any knowledge whatever of such calls or that ahe knows a person by the name of Connere She was questioned relative oes. telephone call made from her telephone during the evening of 6-16-35 to.