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Orlando Chief of Police Ed Vestel was the first person called at the coroner's inquest.

Quote, last evening between 8.30 and 9 o'clock, I was over at the police station.

Several of us were there, and a woman came in, and she asked for the chief of police.

I told her I was the chief, and she said she wanted to talk to me.

She said she wanted to talk privately.

I said, well, we'll go over to my office in City Hall.

When we went over there, she told me she was postmistress from West Palm Beach. She told me of the robbery of the registered mails there of $32,000. She said there were a number of post office inspectors there working on the case. She wanted me to telephone to the post office inspector there, giving me his room number in the Palms Hotel in Palm Beach. She said

a man by the name of Milpmore had been a clerk in her office for some time and that he was now in Orlando.

She left Palm Beach on a blind clue, she called it, having in mind that Miltmore was connected

with the robbery of $32,000.

She said she drove over here yesterday from West Palm Beach, having as her chauffeur a man

by the name of Patterson.

She registered at the San Juan Hotel and sent for Mr. Milpmore to come to her room.

She said she knew he was a dope fiend.

She said before leaving Palm Beach, she secured it from a doctor there.

She said he had come to her room and asked for something to drink,

and that they talked, and she decided that he had evidence to her room and asked for something to drink, and that they talked,

and she decided that he had evidence of the mail robbery.

She said when he asked for a drink, he complained of being warm.

She mixed a drink, and he drank it.

It was strong with morphine, and in a short time he went to sleep, and she then searched him for evidence of the mail robbery.

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