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- $e a that Tony’s farm is located one and one-half miles from Eolp, Filinois; that the next day they returned to Carbondale, and that Miller and Wiseman told him that the Chevrolet car which they were driving might excite suspicion. He atated that he did not know why. Shelton stated that they subsequently drove the Chevrolet down Main Street in Carbondale in the direction away from the college and passed the police station, and in about the second block from the police headquarters on the right eide, Miller and Wiseman bought a Whippet 1926 or 1927 model coach for $85 cash. The place where the car wae purchased looked like a junk yard; that thie Whippet coach hed a gray body, black wooden wheels, left rear fender slightly emashed. Shelton was unable te give the name of the person from whom they purchased the car, the address or the motor or license numbers. . He stated that both the Chevrolet and the Whippet car were then driven back to Main Street and that near a hotel on the corner they had a bill of sale notarized, but that the same wns not regiatered. Shelton wae unable to furnish the name in which the Whippet ear was purchased, but stated he was confident that the name was fictitious. They then went down Main Street toward the college and two blocks from the railroad depot they turned left and near Walker's Clothing Store across the railroad tracks they left the Chevrolet Coach with a bootlegger, name unknown; that they took the Missouri license plates from the Chevrolet and placed Missouri dealer slates thereon. Sheltén believes that either Miller or Wisemas . called a man named\herry in St. Louis and told him to go to Carbon- dale and secure this Chevrolet from the bootlegger. He atated he does not know the name of the person called on the telephone or the telephone number. Shelton states that at Carbondale he went into Valentine’s Hardware Store and talked to a Mr. Valentine who ia a baeketball player; that Miller and Wiseman were parked in the gasoline filling station diagonally across the street whore. they were buying tire patching in case of tire trouble. He stated he believes that Valentine saw these men acrose the street. He went on to state that they then left Carbondale about noon. He is unable to give the spproximate date. They proceeded to Ashley, Illinoie. When they were between Ashley and Belleville, Illinois, they turned off into a dirt road to the . right, where they proceeded for a half mile to a little creek, where the two men destroyed the Miseouri license plates taken off