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oece Te eeue ppewsend epee eee led uss pee et Load OM . . : oe ee spe rear kr heed Le ld Tie gp ane A gah prope eseed bem gee Semen the on 8 es! i: ‘os 5 Park nearby and that ths Agent was accompanied by his wife and some smili ‘Parmer home during the wocke Herd and Esther were gonte ‘He was emphatic in - galls to or fron that house during that time except the one he received fro -‘Eatber Farmete _ a OL nae FL “to the office of Chief of Detectives Bd Portley by his officers end Was. - questioned by Agente Nathan and Braye — eg ye we - Joplin who might have ‘pot say definitely whether he was in the drug aang ‘Slosn' that a Federal Agent was watching the home of Farmer from a cabin at chijdren, However, Mre Bean expressed his opinion that there were no sgents watching the home Se hs “oly When questioned as to the whereabouts of the Farmera during the eerly months © of the year and particularly as to phone calls to the Farmer house during | April, Mr. Bean stated that Herd and Esther Farmer left the fam provebly fa 0 the latter part of are il and that they were gone for several weeks, ‘peturning =: = approximately & week before June 16, 1933e He advised that when they departed o; : ' they told him they were going to Kansss Citye He advised be received a long ..2>:. distance call fran Esther during that time and he presumed she called frax ae! Kansas City, Missourie He Qenied that he received any milor other 0007.3 commnications from them during their absenee and that he had no information as to where they weree Harvey Bean positively denied that any one came to the; : his statement that no one spent one or more nights at the home during this ~~ period and stated that he knew nothing concerning any long distance telephons t tober ss Frank Vaughn, who yesides at 1608 Porter Avemits Joplin, Missouri, wos brought |: , 4 Vaughn stated that be until recently was the owner of the Midway Drug Store, ~ ae 1612 Main Street, Joplin, Missouri, when he gold the sane to Jack Rickards, who cams to Joplin from St» Lowisy Missourte Ee advised that he received @ $1,000200 — check from Rickards and took a $500.00 mortgage on the drug store which has not . been satisfiede Ho dented that he has any financial interest in the érug store . at this time, but admitted, after some questionings that he is selling oh ‘an@ whiskey and that he makes the above mentioned drug atore bis headquarters «>. and is there most of the timee He advised that he met Herb Farner several years ago at Pichers Oklahoma, at which time he was boarding ‘at the home of Farmer's mother and that he has been friendly with Farmer since that times VE re gtk a awies ft . i Yeughn steted that he possibly sew Herb Farmer on the morning of June 16, 1955, - at the Midway Drug Store; that he next saw Farmer at about 4 or 4:50 P-M, when . Farmer was sitting in his cer 4n front of the drug starée He stated that on the latter occasion Famer seid nothing to him whatsoever pegerding the errest of. Frank Mashe Vaughn positively denied that he sav Farrer again that daye ee: coe denied that he sa¥ Mrse Nask and Dick Galetas or any other persons at. the Mi . Drug Store that evening inquiring for Herd Farmer or any pereons fran ‘out. of. been Galatas and Mrs. Hash and her daug' tere Vaughn would store at the tine they would have arrived, first stating that be may have been in the rear of the érug: store. when ‘ a ees r ‘ t _ . . ee oe en ————