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5 een Y Coen y Been sleeps in a ened building which evidently had previously been used as @ chicken house and in these quarters nothing of any significance © i was found, except a single barrel 12 gauge shotgun which ms loaded with #6. 7 Harvey Bean was questioned at length concerning his knowledge of the °°? 5" activities at the Farmer residence during June 16 and 17, 1935, ané the period ~ up to dates He advised that Herb and Esther Farmer were ot home the mrming ” of June 16, 1933;-that they left about noon that day end thet he 4ié not eee | them the remainder of that daye He advised that about seven o'clock that ce ee evoning, June léth, he returned to the house fram the bern and diacorered three. persons in the housse He deacribded one of the persons as a man, medium tall, =~. fairly heavy, dark ccmplexion and talked with « scuthern accents A woman with - @erk hair and fair complexion and a little girl approximately ten oF twelve °°; years olde He advised that he did not ask these people their names, inasmeh as they advised him that they were friends of Herd en Esther Farmer ami that — they wanted to spend the night theres Bean stated that he sew no automobile =” at the home and that he does not know how they came to the farm; that he 03s remained in the house with them until about nine ofclock, Pelle, Whe he oe retired in the outbuilding where he sleepse At the tine he departed fran ths house the Fermers ha not returnede He stated that he heard and knew of no oo telephons calls to or from the Farmer home during the time these persons were en there and furthermore that be knows of no long distance calls to any point - from that phone om Friday oF Saturday, June 16th and. 17the oe ee ae Harvey Bean stated that on the following morning, June 17th, he arose at about 6 AcMe and came to the house for his breakfast at approximately 7 oF 7330 Ae; that he found Herb and Kether Farzer alone; that the three strange peresom had - departed and that he asked no questions about their identities or the time <=: they left for the reason that Herb and Esther do not divulge to him anything regarding their activities or friendse — ee are caf rf Harvey Bean stated that Herb and Esther Farmer went to Joplin some time * a Saturday morning, June 17th, and that the officers from Joplin searched the eo house at epproximately noon or 1 PeMej;that some tine later, probably about. £ P.M. Esther Farmer called him on the telephou at which time he advised her of the raids He advised that Esther Farner returned to the farm some time =~ in the evenings probably shortly before dark, being brought there by same one _ wbom he could not recall, probably some of her relatives; that Esther told ed, hin thet Herb had gone away somewhere in hie oar and thethe did not eak her: oe where Herd had gone or for eny other informatione He acvieed that Hex> Farmer returned to the farm four or five days later; that be stayed in the house mast of the time, but that he occasionally went to the outbuildingse He. advised _ that Herd did not leave the farm until he was arrested on July &, 1935. “He advised, upon being questioned, that Farmer seid he was out of money and that they traded chickens ané putter fer groceries after Farmer retumed fromthe above mentiomd tripe He atated that the Farmers understood from scape source _ a