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tn Se ala diel Ue eel a Shey cali a ghrp 1 te glance back over his shoulder and observed Lt, SHOULDERS talking ‘tz @ man in the middle of the hall way. reaching the end of the corridor, HALL and the officer discovered they could not enter the bask steps at that point, whereupon they returned part ‘way forward and met Lt. SROULDERS, ‘The man to whom SHOULDERS had been talking hui disappeared by that time, They then proceeded down the back’ steps and out the back door and around the side of the building, As they cage opposite the side entrance of the building, HALL observed an auto- mobile parked at the entrance with the interior light on and a blond woman sitting inside. They then walked to the right ‘in front of the ee epee eee pee Me Tee eee ee eh eee nee el bor the sida af apa "enh y UNIO Dg 6b LC PULLS WoL Bld Wao posRue My vie wee Se the Congress “otel. “The uniformed officer drove and all three of | then sat in the front seat with HALL inthe middle, HALL stated’ exphatically that no luggage was removed by anyone at the time he was taker, from the apartment and that neither Lt. SHOULDERS nor the uniformed officer carried ‘iuggage tom or pot it in the car in his resense, and that the luggage-was still in the room when they left. a seid that the oniy comment concerning any of the Inggage made at any time was when Lt. SHOULDERS picked up the brief case from behind the large leather suit case, opened tt, and saw HALL'S wallet inside which contained approximately #700, He closed the brief case and told HALL to watch him replace it where he had found it. ‘HALL stated that he did not believe the car was identified as & police car, but appeared to be a plain dark automobile. He waa driven directly to station headquarters, the trip consuming not to exceed ten minutes. HALL places the tine of their Teaving the apartment building at %:15 p.m, because he revalled glancing at his watch two or three times during the absence of HAGER as well as at the exact time HAGER © left, which had been 7:20 p.m. Based on his judgement that RAGER was gone for forty minutes, and the seakch at the time of arrest required forty minutes, the tine would heave } been approximately 8:15, On arriving at the station, he-wah immediately ushered to the desk where he was searched and all him. He gave his name as STEVEN J,“ BYRNE. \ He was then immediately *teken +o a cell where he said he tried for solid hours to get the tumkey to get SHOULDERS for him so he could talk to SHOULDERS, At the end of that period, SHOULDERS came to the cell alone and accused ri Of being one of the kidnappers, SHOULDERS told HALL to think it over and give him all the information and he would get a promotion, adding that he "couldn't hold this up much longer”. Hall recalled being asked numerous questions but stated that he was quite panicky ~10h— al belongings taken from - ieee WANG Ra A ate on