(Testimony of Curtis Laverne Crafard)
Mr. Crafard.
$10 bill, I believe, at that time. Two or three times he bought clothes for the girl.
Mr. Griffin.
Ten dollar bill?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
She couldn't buy much with a $10 bill.
Mr. Crafard.
She needed certain kinds of clothes, slacks and a blouse to work in when she went to work for Ralph Paul.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you know what work she had been doing before she came to work for Paul?
Mr. Crafard.
No; all I know she had been on several occasions in the club with Jack. They were pretty thick for a while, and then something happened between them to where she wouldn't have anything to do with Jack.
Mr. Hubert.
But you don't know what it was that happened?
Mr. Crafard.
No, sir; I have no definite knowledge.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you have some idea?
Mr. Crafard.
I have an opinion; yes.
Mr. Griffin.
Can you give us an idea?
Mr. Crafard.
He was making a big play for her, and my opinion is he got out of hand and she put a stop to it.
Mr. Griffin.
Was there anything else said by someone else that led you to believe it?
Mr. Crafard.
Mostly she referred to it. She inferred it happened.
Mr. Griffin.
What would be getting out of hand in that situation, would it be simply Jack wanting to go to bed with her or would it be some unusual kind of sexual relations?
Mr. Crafard.
No; I would say wanting to go to bed with her as far as my knowledge. From what I knew of Norma she was a pretty decent girl. She was a little wild but she was a fairly decent girl.
Mr. Griffin.
How old a girl would you say she was?
Mr. Crafard.
I believe Norma was 18. She was a very friendly person, easy to like.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you have a girl who worked at the Eatwell Restaurant that you dated?
Mr. Crafard.
No, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
But you did go to the Eatwell Restaurant on Main Street, I think it was?
Mr. Crafard.
It was on Commerce.
Mr. Hubert.
Commerce.
Mr. Crafard.
I went there most of the time for my meals. It was, meals were cheap, nice place to go to, it was close, and I sat around there and joked with the girls and the one guy who worked in there I got acquainted with him a little bit.
Mr. Hubert.
How many girls in the club went there?
Mr. Crafard.
I don't believe the girls in the club went there to eat often.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you know a man by the name of Huey Reeves?
Mr. Crafard.
The name isn't familiar to me.
Mr. Hubert.
Would it help you if I suggested that he worked at the Nichol's Garage next door?
Mr. Crafard.
That would be the colored boy, I believe.
Mr. Hubert.
No; this was a white man.
Mr. Crafard.
On a couple of occasions I sat in there and talked to him a couple of nights. We would sit in there and talk, maybe have a beer or two.
Mr. Hubert.
Beer or two where? At the Eatwell?
Mr. Crafard.
No; the garage. In the office.
Mr. Hubert.
While you were there, who do you think were Ruby's best friends other than his business acquaintances?
Mr. Crafard.
Oh, man, the man I seen him with mostly was Senator, that I know of him being was Senator, and Ralph Paul.
Mr. Hubert.
What about girl friends?
Mr. Crafard.
He had one girl, I believe her name was Linda or something, she was a blond, she was a real nice looking girl that he went with quite a few times.
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