Mr. Griffin.

Were the children still with the woman in Cuba, Mo.

Mr. Crafard.

No; the children was with my wife; she had the children.

Mr. Griffin.

But you didn't contact her brother?

Mr. Crafard.

No; I tried to, but I couldn't find out. Didn't know where he was living or had no way of getting in touch with him.

Mr. Griffin.

Had he moved from the last time?

Mr. Crafard.

The last I knew where he was at he was working on a ranch, and I never could get ahold of the ranch. Nobody had ever heard of it out around Carrollton, and nobody had ever heard of the place. I knew he was there because I had been out there with him when he got the job, but I didn't have any transportation, so I had no way of going out there.

Mr. Griffin.

Well, you thought she was in the Dallas area. Where specifically in the Dallas area did you have in mind?

Mr. Crafard.

There is a little place about 30 miles out of Dallas called, I think, Greenfield, or something like that, that I was told she was around. She had got a letter from her in that area in February.

Mr. Griffin.

Who had?

Mr. Crafard.

This daughter of this woman in Missouri.

Mr. Griffin.

And did the woman, did she, show you the letter?

Mr. Crafard.

She couldn't find the letter, she couldn't locate it. She put it up in some of her stuff and couldn't locate the letter at that time.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you check out around Greenviile for her?

Mr. Crafard.

No; I didn't get out to Greenville.

Mr. Griffin.

Did you contact the Greenville police?

Mr. Crafard.

No.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you tell the Dallas tracer people?

Mr. Crafard.

Yes.

Mr. Hubert.

That the last you had heard she was in Greenville?

Mr. Crafard.

Yes.

Mr. Griffin.

You didn't know until you arrived at Cuba, Mo., that your wife might be in Dallas, did you?

Mr. Crafard.

That is right.

Mr. Griffin.

So when you left Michigan on your way to Dallas you really didn't have any idea that your wife would be in Dallas. You expected she might be in Cuba, Mo.

Mr. Crafard.

When I left Michigan my destination was Cuba, Mo., as far as I knew. As far as I knew, my wife was in Cuba, Mo. or around there some place close.

Mr. Griffin.

When you left Cuba, Mo., the only information you had about your wife was that she was somewhere near, might be somewhere in the vicinity of Greenville, Tex.?

Mr. Crafard.

Around the Dallas area is what--she had got this letter from Greenville, and she was in the vicinity, as far as they knew, in the Greenville area of Dallas.

Mr. Griffin.

The letter was not written by your wife?

Mr. Crafard.

Yes; it had been written by my wife to this daughter of this woman in Cuba, Mo.

Mr. Griffin.

What were you told the letter said?

Mr. Crafard.

Just, she just said, she didn't say anything about what the letter said. She just said it had been wrote from Greenville, and that this girl had wrote back to my wife, and the letter had come back, nobody at that address, no forwarding address.

Mr. Griffin.

What direction is Greenville from Dallas?

Mr. Crafard.

That is out sort of the northeast of Dallas, about 35 miles.

Mr. Griffin.

What route is that on?

Mr. Crafard.

I am not sure. I don't think it is on a main route. It is, I think, on a smaller highway.

Mr. Griffin.

Had you ever heard of this place Greenville, Tex., before?

Mr. Crafard.

Yes; I knew approximately where it was.

Mr. Griffin.

How had you happened to hear of it?

Mr. Crafard.

When my wife and I were in Dallas, I had worked for this