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ae “SANDY came home about noon, Tuesday, October 6, 1953 by taxi, and told me to get ready and go downtown shopping with her. At that time she counted out two hundred dollars, in ten dollar denomination bills, on the dresser and gave them to me, telling me to buy myself a new outfit and some storm coats for her daughter and for another little girl, BEITY KIMBRELL, who stays with us while her parents work. She told ne hot to ask any questions and not to worry. We called a taxi and went to the Lane-Bryant Store in. downtown St. Louis where she made several purchases. She bought a three piece suit, either dark blue or charcoal color, which cost ninety~one dollars. I saw her count out ten ten dollar bills for it. She also bought some gray checked slacks and a blouse as well as some panties and a corset there. I think her total purchases there amounted to around one hundred fifty dollars. I did not see her pay for anything: there but the suit. "We then went to a shoe store on the same side of tha streat where she bought a pair of pumps (black) a pair of black flats and either three or six pairs of hose. I saw her pay for them with two ten dollar bills, from which she received some change. "We then hailed a yellow cab to taxs us home. She gave me apiece of paper with the name 'SIEVi, STRAND! and the | address 'In care of Weetern Union, Main Office, St. Louis, Missouri’ on it and a message ‘Leaving at 2:00 a.m. via TWA, Love, SANDY' and the words '10:00 p.m.! on it. She told me to be sure and send a telegram to SIRAND at that address with the above message at exactly ten o'clock that night. She said that she was going to have to leave town for two or three days, for me not to ask any questions, that she knew what she was doing, and for me not to worry. She said that she waa-- going to get another girl to stay with me to help take care of the children while she was away. "She got out of the cab across the street from Franks No. 2 Bar at Ninth and Chambers, to get the other girl. The cab took me on home. / a ETS Li L : i nye 99 - gE ET ry er ied i