(Testimony of Curtis L. Crafard Resumed)
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
She had written you or you had written her?
Mr. Crafard.
I had wrote her, and then she had wrote me.
Mr. Hubert.
The letter you wrote to her I don't think you mailed.
Mr. Crafard.
I mailed a couple of them. One or two anyway.
Mr. Hubert.
I think you left one behind, didn't you?
Mr. Crafard.
I might have; I am not sure.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you know what day they went to your aunt's house?
Mr. Crafard.
From what I understood, it was the night before they talked to me.
Mr. Hubert.
And she told them, I suppose, that you were going up to your sister's house?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
And then the next morning they interviewed you?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
How long did that interview take?
Mr. Crafard.
About, I believe, 4 1/2 to 5 hours I talked to the men there. That is when they took me back out to the house, and then he asked me to go into Kalkaska the following morning and meet him so he could take some pictures with a Polaroid camera.
Mr. Hubert.
And he did so?
Mr. Crafard.
He took some pictures, and I talked to him between an hour and a half and 2 hours again that morning.
Mr. Hubert.
Did he go over with you the details of your trip up by hitchhiking?
Mr. Crafard.
I don't believe he developed that too closely.
Mr. Hubert.
Have you ever been interviewed by the FBI since?
Mr. Crafard.
I talked to an agent last Saturday at my home in Dallas, Oreg.
Mr. Hubert.
Other than that you have not talked----
Mr. Crafard.
No.
Mr. Hubert.
I think this man who had interviewed you, this FBI man who interviewed you in Kalkaska, had asked you to keep in touch with them?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
How was that to be done?
Mr. Crafard.
Dropping him a card or line letting him know where I was at to get in touch with me.
Mr. Hubert.
That is if you moved?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
How long did you stay with your sister?
Mr. Crafard.
I was there a couple of days. Then I went back down to Clare. I think I spent the night there, and then I was going to go to Florida, and I was hitchhiking, and this guy picked me up, and he said it was pretty nasty out, and he said it was too cold and nasty out to hitchhike. He said, "I have got a room over here. I won't be using it tonight, and you'll be welcome to use it, and then I will bring you back on the road in the morning." I went out there with him, and he was working with an oil field drilling crew, and one of the men had quit, and they needed a man, so I went to work that night. Then I worked up until, with them up until, about the 17th or 18th of February.
Mr. Griffin.
Where was that?
Mr. Crafard.
The main office was out of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. We were moving over the southern portion of the State of Michigan.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you let the FBI know where you were?
Mr. Crafard.
I wrote to them and told them they could contact me through the North American Drilling office in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. When I left there in February I went to Dallas, Tex. I was at the trial, and then I went out to----
Mr. Hubert.
How did you go to Dallas?
Mr. Crafard.
I hitchhiked.
Mr. Hubert.
Why did you go to Dallas?
Mr. Crafard.
It was on a personal matter.
Mr. Griffin.
I didn't get that answer.
Mr. Hubert.
It was on a personal matter.
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