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ee Rg ee ee ene va PAE erie wt Ld 5 a ccletas i ly at a small hat shop around the corner from the Taft Hotel in New York City about two years agc. She stated she did not know just how she lost her hat but i remembers it dropped to the ground while she was holding cn to her dog after qa h aia + shots were fired; that it was real close to the hedge row and she did not think to pick it up and it would probably still be in that lane. During the 7 preparation of statement she, for the first time, admitted that she wrote all F ef the ransom letters and instructions prepared in connection with the payoff. ae stated that she did this at the direction cf CARL HALL and halped him 7 H z utp 4 tnt + 1 ~ r planning wording of these notes. HEADY was very much interested to Imow 1 the heed _pbandwritang experts had been able to identify her handwriting, — ving she had made every attempt te disguise handprinting and handwriting 3 wanted to know if FBI had been successful in identifying it. Pe wh nA TINA TIF a». mam rat? a a BONMIE HEADY stated that shortly after CARL HALL stopped and picked up Lhe ransom money about midnight, Sunday night, October 4, they had driven net mere than two or three miles when he again stcpped the car, -harged thea License plates on the rented Ferd and tock his flashlight and wold her he had looked in the duffel bag and "it was really full of money” , and that "they had it", and had been successful in their elaborate plans vhick they had werked out together. ! al re it: sat en Leela BONNIE HEADY stated that she cannot recall much about the trip from Zansas City to St. Louis. In faet, she does not remember CARL HALL stopping to make phone call to GREENLEASS after picking up ransom package. She statad first she remembers they arrived in St. Louis with HALL having d:nz ail driving, just when the bars were opening which would be 6:00 a.m., nivning ef October 5, Monday. She stated they stopped had a few drinks and shortly after CARL HALL showed up with two suitcases, one considerably iarge> than the other. They then took the suitcases and went in rented Fe ra up into an alley where they opened the trunk and she for the first time saw the duffel bag which CARL had picked up the night before. She stated that the duffel bag was tied with hard Imct and that both she and CARL trisd to untie if unsuccessfully. She finally told him "for Christ sake get. out your knife and cut it". She stated that HALL did take out his knife and cut the rope and that the duffel bag was crammed full of money, with mere money than she or CARL had ever seen before in their lives. She stated that they filled the two suitcases with the money and that both auitcases were full. She stated that the larger of the suitcases, which sbe described as a foot locker type, was so full that they could not get ' the lid @lesed with the tray on top the money, and therefore threw the tray away in order to be able to close the locker. She stated that there was nO questicn but what all of the money was in the duffel bag when they gcl to St. Louis and that all of this money was put into the two suitcases as described. ~63- ReTeoeC UST beth meme a eemainei nial Tiel