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SL 7-429 HALL locked all around the apartment and said it looked like a good spot and he thought he was going to like it there, I tipped the bellboy $2.00. HALL suggested that we get a couple of cokes and I told the boy to bring up one. HALL asked me if I was going to have, ~ one and I said no, that I was going to get the girl for hin. I told him I would find out if she had a friend and if she did we would have. a real celebration. He thought that was a good idea and he asked me now long it would take me to get them. I told him about a half hour... 700.03. He brightened up considerably at this, He told me not to take the key ~~ but to knock three times on the door and tel] him who JT was when I came back. I went downstairs and waited at the spot in which I was supposed Lo meet Lo eutenant SHOULDERS. He and officer IOLAN rane ancl tilked to me about fifteen minutes. They decided to go up and get HAL. They | wanted me to go up to be sure they got the right apartiecnt but SHOULDERS - told me to stay where HALL couldn't see me, I went up with them. They knocked on the door and said, ‘STEVE, this is JCHN'. They went inside. About five or ten minutes later Lieutenan! SHOULDERS came out with a large suitcase and told me to put it in his car and for ne to get down in the back seat of my car so HALL would not see me when they brought him out. He told me to folicw the police car down to the police station which I did. He and the other officer brought the Penne eaetm + rh ow — . ra other stuff from the apartment when they got HAIL, When we got toa the police station I asked SHOULDERS if ne had found HALL's pistol. They had been in such a hurry they had not thoroughly searched the room so officer DCLAN and I went back Lo the ajeariment where we found HALL's pistol in the drawer of the telephone stund. ‘\“e came back to the police station where Chief O'CONNELI, of the St. Louis Police Department and Mr, THORNTON of the Federal Bureaw of Investi- | gation and other officers talked to me. I was in the police station until 6:00 or 6:30 A.M. the following morning at which time I told Lieutenant SHOULDERS that I had the money HALL had given me stashed in my hotel room, He told me to bring the money down and turn it in. I brought all the money I had that had been received from HALL to . _ Lieutenant SHOULDERS that afternoon, Wednesday, October 7, 1953, It amounted to $1180.00, This.morning, October 8, 1953, I found a telegram addressed to “PALIN TLS, 1835 Washington St., St. Louis, Missouri', which telegram readas follows: ‘Kansas City, Mo. 6 1@51PMC: 1953 Oct 7 AM. Checked in St. Jo. coal, Stick to / client like glue. Will wire you from L.A. Love. ~ANDY.! , "T never saw any of the money in the trunks. I have only SANDY's word that one of the trunks was full of money. Until I was [oe BR ne pg tn I RY ES HE Pr tee earns a