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one cee eee ry ee ee ee Cee 170 pounds, medium build, hair light brown, and noted no scars or marks. Ee stated that Wiseman was about 40, 5 feet 7 or & inches in height, about 160 pounds in weight, heavy build, black hair, complexion dark, large face, large nose, no scars or marks noted. During his conversation with these two men he determined that they were familiar with Charles 4. "Pretty Boy® Floyd ani Wilbur Under- hill. He, Shelton, cleims to have served a term with the latter two at the State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missourl. He atated that these two men finally offered to take him along in their automobile, which was a blue-black Chevrolet Coach, 1932 or 1935 model, with red wheele and on which was mounted to spare tires on wheels; that the car also had Missouri license plates, the numbers of which are unknown to Shelton. He claims that these individuals also had a set of Illinois, Keneas andi Chic license plates in their car. He also claims that Miller ad Wise- man hed considerable counterfeit money in denominations of five, ten and one hundred dollar bills; thet he went with them accom panied by two other men; that they left Washington, Missouri, in the afternoon and drove directly to St. Louis. He atated that he could not describe the latter two men or recall their names; thet these two men got cut of the car at St. Louis and went with Miller and Wiseman to a brick bungalow on Cass Street near the Hamilton Shoe Factory, which is located near Jefferson and St. Louies Aave- nues, where Shelton alleges that Miller and Wieeman obtained more sounterfeit money. Shelton/was interrogated very closely in an effort to determine where thetcounterfelt money had been spent but he | olaims to have no knowledge concerning same and was unable to advise the disposition of the alleged counterfeit money. On thiseme day he atates while in st. Louis, Vern Miller went to a drug store located one block west of the Statler Hotel. He thinks it is between Sth and 12th Streets. At St. Louis, Miller purchased a Society Brand suit, size 5?, brown in color, and also a Hart Gohaffner & Marx suit, size 59, which was oxford gray; eleo he purchased a pair of gray golf knickers. Ghelton claims that Miller paid for all the above in genuine money. ‘fe states that on the evening of the same day Miller, Wiseman and he, Shelton, left St. Houle, ecroseed the bridge into East St. Iouis, Dlinois, thence to Belleville, Jllinois, where they purchased gasoline, and when proceeded immediately to Carbon- dale, Illinois, where they errived at about 9 P. M. spending the night there with an Italian bootlegger whom he knows only as Tony;