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REF :MEBQ _ SL 7-429 —_ . . = # home at approximately 3:45 pom. on Monday, October 5, 1953, at the request of an Ace cab driver, known to her as JOHNNY. LANE stated that O°DAY returned at approximately noon ths following dey, after-which she accompanied her on a shopping trip to-waricasstores in St. Legis. O*DAY informed LANE at this tims that she-wes leaving-towm end gave ber want a handwritten message with inateuctions to send the communication in the form of a telegram at 10200 |- pom, inetaws-dete, o/o STEVE STRAND, Western Union, St. Louis, Moo Wt nh eee LANE advised that they returned to their-residence and aman sub- - gaquentiy eerived with two newly purchased suitvases for OfDAY. She stated that — OfDAY le#t with this man in hie autemobile at approzimately 2:00 pom. She said — she next heard from O'DAY by means of a telegram sent her from Columbia, Mo., reyissting her to disregard instructions given as to sending the msasage to |. STEVE STRAND» HERM-N JOSSPH DESTRE, rel; river, ACE CAB COMPANY, residing at a SINE. 2:0: 50 515 and _ October 8. fy —y ivas, he answered a call-to pisk woo a fare atthe Yangess Grill, Hampton ani Oakland Aversey, at approximately 12200 noon, on Ostober 6, 1953. He (~) ajated that he picked up O° DAY and thereafter transported to downtown 8t. Lovige He-rteted that O°DAY at the outest gare him $9 ami requested that he purshase a-botthe of glue, in ordar for her to resaal.a letter, .... N.a* ieee. ane had la her possession. He remarked nat O°DAY had imiicated to nim a vequegt that he tremgpery her in his sah+to &. Joseph, Mo. He agreed, howe $iex, to tearrpert her in hiv privately wend -catomohlle; and-arrangensnts were mad+ for the trip. He wwid- he dropped O'BAY in the 2160 biock of North 9th > Stress. He seid thet she -retorned shortly with -her aunt and hs transported than +0 & department store in-deentown 4. Lowis. He said that he thereafter made purchases of two pieces of luggage for O'DAY with money she had provided rene tt a oan ’ . ao : a t DESTES related that-he returned to O'DAY’s home with the luggage in nie persoaklly oened automobile and that they departed for St. dceeph, Mo., at approximately 2350-pom. He said thes they stopped briefly for O°DAY to make ecdftlonsl clothing purchases and proceeded weet from St. Louis on Ue 3. Highway 40. - He recalled they made stopz at the corner of Lindbergh and Clayton Avanzes for food and gascline and -continasd towards St. Jomeph. He said that and at Sewet Springs, Misacuri, where they procured foot and gasoline. They departed from Sweet Springs at approximately 8:00 p.m.,; and arrived at a reetaurant on the outskirts of Kansas City, from which point O'DAY-made a hotel reservation at the Muehibach Hotel in Kansas City. They thereafter proseeded to downtown Kanaas City, where he dropped O'DAY at the hotel. He remarked that during the journey O'DAY had indicated to him that she had beso on a three day bendsr and had stayed with a man at the Coral Courta Motel in St. Louie. She remarked that she had lost her luggege , i | they made additional stops et Columbia, Missouri, where O'DAY sent a teiegram, ) t ¥