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‘SL. 7-129 ; 7 Be aa ina stew; very nervous, - He told me to put the suitcases in the car trunk. "He left the leather suitcase I had purchased for him but brought the briefcase: along. He wanted to drive the car but I reminded him that ~ he had no driver'a:licénse and-he had better let me drive. I drove him S to the “vieinity of Bettendorf Store, Hampton and Chippewa. He said he wanted to go.to a Hardware store. As soon as we arrived we noted a Laclede gab, I. believe carrying number 203, and he told the driver to ' wait’ as he wanted ‘Rim to take me someplace, He then asked me for my driver's license ‘out I told him I only had my chauffeur's license with my photograph on it. He said that he would go ahead without it | er | : and that 3 would. be careful. | He then left in the rented car about 1:00 or 1: 30 pm. “While we were in the room at Coral Cts. he talked about the $2500 he had given me to keep for him the night before, He — told me to -gtve him $2,000 and keep $500 for myself, He said, 'JOHN, if you have no money you're nothing’. He.also said 'This thing would be fine if it wasn't for this man making the one slip. That's why I've got to be like this, You know I trust, you and SANDY. You don't have to worry. IJm going to really set you up but you've got to play it © cool, I need a place -in a nice quiet refined neighborhood where I can stay about a month', He then pulled a handful of bills out of his ‘pocket and gave them to me without counting them, He told me to go downtown and get the best suit I could find and get all fixed up and that he was going to buy me a motel in Florida and 'really set me up *<*p60d', He then reached in his pocket and pulled out anether bunch of bills and gave them to me without counting them and said he wanted me to rent a nice ‘Apartment ina nice residential district for about | _ $200 or $300 a month, and rent it in my own name as I was legitimate. I was to tell the management that I was a dispatcher with the Ace Cab Company and that my uncle would be staying with me for awhile. I didn't count the money at the time I received it. He left me at Bettendorf Store at about 1:00 or 1:30 P.M. on Tuesday after telling | me to meet him at the Pink Bar between 3:30 and 3:45 that evening. I ‘got iri the Laclede cab and told the driver to take me downtown. I was_ very frightened as I thought he was going to buy some more cartridges for the gun at. the hardware store,. I almost called DICK GERABECK of the St. Louis Police Department and I still had that in mind when we got gown to Seventh Street in St. Louis where I went into a tavern for the purpose of making the call, Then I got scared not knowing what it was. all about and being afraid that he might steal the car that was After I Let. “SANDY off, ‘TI. returned to Coral Courts. "HALL wag: Tein Looeeen or adheitenes naeaeitaliesemndenen aenaaaRE . at SOS ei a a ead el 1 es