(Testimony of Gertrude Hunter)
Mrs. Hunter.
No one else.
Mr. Liebeler.
You are quite sure about that?
Mrs. Hunter.
I'm positive, because I was sitting right there I was sitting this way and the door was right here [indicating], and he drove cater-cornered up.
Mr. Liebeler.
And there are glass windows in the front of the store so that you could see right out into the street?
Mrs. Hunter.
It is a solid glass there and the door was standing open there.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you know about what kind of car it was?
Mrs. Hunter.
Now, the reason I'm definite about the car--a friend of .mine in Houston--I was looking for them up and they had a car just like this and I had left a note on my mailbox that I would be at this place--- telling them if anyone come I would be at this place and when they drove up I thought that was them and it was a two-tone-blue Ford.
Mr. Liebeler.
What year?
Mrs. Hunter.
1957 or 1958--I won't be positive about that, but I would rather say it was about a 1957, I think.
Mr. Liebeler.
From which direction did this car drive up?
Mrs. Hunter.
Well, now, where the car come from--I don't know whether it come up Jefferson or down Irving Boulevard, but I know that it did park into the front of the store where I was sitting, you know, I was talking and I wasn't paying any attention to which way the car came from. The only thing I seen is the driver, when he drove up, and I seen the color of the car, I started to get up because I thought it was my friends-from Houston, and I looked and seen that it wasn't and he just got out and come in. She didn't get out at that time. He come in and asked for the gunsmith, and to the best of my knowledge, I'm not positive, but it seems to me like, because I was thinking that so many different times that they would come in--whether he had something in his hand or whether he didn't, but I know he went back to the car, and if he did, he put it in the car and when he come back in, she got out and followed him in, but he didn't help her out of the car, he didn't help her with the kids or nothing. She just followed him in.
Mr. Liebeler.
Is the furniture store that Mrs. Whitworth operated at that time at the intersection of Jefferson Street and Irving Boulevard, is that right?
Mrs. Hunter.
Yes; you come right in to Jefferson and Irving Boulevard. It used to be the bus station--the Continental Bus Station.
Mr. Liebeler.
And they had diagonal parking on that street? Is that the way you parked?
Mrs. Hunter.
Well, you see, it was where the buses used to park clean off the street to get out of the way of the traffic, you see, and you just come up with the nose right up and you would be out of the traffic.
Mr. Liebeler.
Out of the main street?
Mrs. Hunter.
Just like this here was the. store [indicating], well, it was over this way and he just kind of cater-cornered up this way.
Mr. Liebeler.
So, he parked his car diagonally in .front of the store and got out and came in?
Mrs. Hunter.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
What happened after he went back out and they came back into the store?
Mrs. Hunter.
Well, he just come in and she was over when her desk was there and he asked her about some furniture or something and they walked and went back to the back and this woman, she followed them and this young baby and the new baby.
Mr. Liebeler.
This man asked Mrs. Whitworth about some furniture?
Mrs. Hunter.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
And Mrs. Whitworth and this man walked toward the back of the store and the woman and the children followed them; is that right?
Mrs. Hunter.
Yes; but she wasn't--now, listen, she didn't pay any attention and this lady had had a new grandbaby.
Mr. Liebeler.
You mean Mrs. Whitworth?
Mrs. Hunter.
Mrs. Whitworth's daughter and she says, "Let me trade you a boy for this gift and we will both have a boy and girl." Well, they didn't offer
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