(Testimony of Curtis Laverne Crafard)
Mr. Hubert.
And you say you just took some money out of the cash register for that purpose?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Did Jack permit you to do that?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes, he told me; otherwise, I wouldn't have done so.
Mr. Hubert.
Did he have any limitation on how much to take?
Mr. Crafard.
No.
Mr. Hubert.
How much did it amount to?
Mr. Crafard.
It usually amounted to $4, $5, maybe $6 a day, what with my cigarettes and what I ate.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you have any time off for yourself at all?
Mr. Crafard.
A couple of nights after the club closed we went out to, he took us out to, the Vegas Club. We were out there until about 3 o'clock in the morning. And I had a couple of times I could, Andy was around the club and I could take off in the afternoon if Andy was around the club.
Mr. Hubert.
What was the purpose of keeping you around the club after your cleanup job was over?
Mr. Crafard.
So far as I understand just mostly answer the phone.
Mr. Hubert.
Were there many phone calls to be answered?
Mr. Crafard.
There was quite a few that would come in--generally, usually, people calling in, would start calling in about 1 o'clock for reservations.
Mr. Hubert.
Did Jack give you any instructions as to how you could handle the phone calls?
Mr. Crafard.
He told me to answer the phone and ask them what they wanted, and if they had a message for Jack so they could give me a number for him to call back. If they had a reservation, how to take a reservation.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you have to make notations about it?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes, I had a notebook there at the club.
Mr. Hubert.
So that when he called in you would just tell him who had called?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Did he sometimes give you instructions as to things you were to do?
Mr. Crafard.
Not unless it was--a couple of times he told me to feed the dogs or something like that---when he would call in, he would ask me if I fed the dogs.
Mr. Hubert.
Where were they kept?
Mr. Crafard.
They were kept in a room behind the kitchen area, a storeroom.
Mr. Hubert.
How many were there?
Mr. Crafard.
When I first went there he had two dogs at the club and then his Sheba that he kept with him all the time.
Mr. Hubert.
You say when you first went he had that many dogs, did that change during the time you were there?
Mr. Crafard.
About a week before the assassination, a man that he had given the dog to brought the dog back and Jack gave me instructions to check the freight prices to California, a friend of his out there had wanted the dog, and he was going to send it out there. So he gave me instructions to check the freight,'how to ship it, and about the crate and food and everything for the dog--to ship it.
Mr. Hubert.
For a period then there were three dogs there?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Was that dog ever shipped to California?
Mr. Crafard.
Not while I was there; no, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you know what the man's name was who the dog was to be shipped to in California?
Mr. Crafard.
No, sir; I don't.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you know what place in California?
Mr. Crafard.
Los Angeles, I believe it was.
Mr. Hubert.
You had to check that to get the rates?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
Had you ever seen that man to whom it was to be shipped?
Mr. Crafard.
Not as far as I--I am not positive I had seen him.
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