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(Testimony of Mrs. Lillian Murret)
Mrs. Murret.
was annulled---an aunt of mine saw the annullment in the paper, because she used to read everything in the paper, you know, and she's the one who knew about it. My sister did tell me the story about that.
Mr. Jenner.
That marriage was a happy marriage, was it?
Mrs. Murret.
The Oswald marriage?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mrs. Murret.
I think so, as far as I know. I mean, I didn't get to go over there very often, but we would visit. I had a lot of children, and naturally I had to take care of them, and we never did have anything, and of course they had a car and everything, and at times they would drop by, but we didn't visit too often.
Mr. Jenner.
They had a car and they had a home?
Mrs. Murret.
What's that?
Mr. Jenner.
They had an automobile, you say, and they also had their own home on Alvar Street?
Mrs. Murret.
Well, they were buying the home on Alvar Street, and during that time was when Mr. Oswald was cutting the grass, I think, and he took a severe pain in his arm, and she gave him some aspirin, and in the meantime she called the doctor, and he said that was the right thing to do, to give him aspirin and to rub his arm, so then it seemed like he got worse, and while she was calling the doctor to come out, he just toppled over.
Of course, the house wasn't paid for, and it seems like they had insurance on their house that Lee never did take care of, or whatever it was, and I think if they had done that, I think they would have been safe in the house, but he neglected to do that, so they didn't have no insurance on the house, or whatever it was.
Then she lived in the house, I think, over 2 years while Lee was a baby, in this house, and then she sold it. I think she sold it, and she bought another smaller house somewhere in that area. I don't remember where, and then she sold that.
Mr. Jenner.
. Well, hold that for a minute. We will get to that later on. When Mr. Oswald had his heart attack and died in August of 1939, did your sister return to work?
Mrs. Murret.
Not right away.
Mr. Jenner.
Not right away?
Mrs. Murret.
No; I think Lee was around 3 years old when she returned to work. I never did ask her, you know anything about the insurance, but he probably had a good amount of insurance on himself, being an insurance man himself, I imagine. I don't know about that.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, was that your impression, anyhow, that she did return to work after a period of about 3 years?
Mrs. Murret.
About 3 years; yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
That would have been around 1942, approximately; is that right?
Mrs. Murret.
I guess so. Now, I can't recollect what happened with Lee after that, when she went to work, or where she worked. I know I took care of Lee when he was that age.
Mr. Jenner.
All right, I would like for you to tell me about that.
Mrs. Murret.
When Lee was a very small child?
Mr. Jenner.
Around that period when he was 3 years old, during that 3-year period, was that during the period you took care of him?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; that's when I took care of him. I offered to take care of Lee for her. It seemed like he was--I don't know how that came along, but it seems like there was someone else, I think, some lady and her husband--I couldn't tell you who they were or anything like that, but they were crazy about the child. She had told me about that and so forth, but then I met her in town one day and she was telling me how they felt about the child, but I told her, I said, "Well, I'll keep Lee for a while, you know, as long as I could." I offered to keep Lee at an age when he was a very beautiful child. Now, I wouldn't say he was smarter than any other child his age. He might have been smarter than some 3-year-olds and so forth, but he was really a cute child, very friendly, and so I kept him and I would take him to town, and when I
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