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(Testimony of Mrs. Lillian Murret Resumed)
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; his name was Edward Ekdahl.
Mr. Jenner.
And it is your best recollection that you met him once before the marriage?
Mrs. Murret.
That's all I saw him; yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Had your sister talked to you about him prior to the marriage?
Mrs. Murret.
She spoke to me about him, I think. He was a high salaried man, that I know, and he did research work for Texas Electric, I think, and of course I don't think things worked out maybe too well for them, I mean, about his way of giving her money and so forth.
I guess she thought things would be different after their marriage. You see, he was sort of tight, I think, with his money. She would go to the grocery store, but he would hold the money, and of course she didn't like that part of it, I guess you know, so then she went around with Mr. Ekdahl in his travels for the company and she also took Lee with her wherever she had to go. And then Lee became of school age, and she had these other two boys in the Chamberlin-Hunt College in Mississippi.
Mr. Jenner.
Is that a military school?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; and it's a high-priced military school, with beautiful uniforms and so forth, and she used her own money for these boys to go to military school. Mr. Ekdahl didn't take on that responsibility. He didn't take on any obligation like that at all, as far as I know. She said he didn't even take Lee as an obligation.
Now, whether this was all her idea or not, I don't know, because she is very independent about things. I don't know, but that's the way I understood it was, so then anyway, Lee traveled with her all over until he became of school age.
During the summertime she rented a place at Covington so that she could have her other two boys with her on vacation.
Mr. Jenner.
Where is Covington?
Mrs. Murret.
Covington is right out of New Orleans, not too far away, over the causeway. People more or less use it as a summer resort, and they rent homes there, just like at Biloxi and Gulfport, and so forth.
Mr. Jenner.
Oh, it's off in that direction?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; so she rented a place over there, and she stayed there with the boys in the summer.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, this was when she was married to Ekdahl; is that right?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes, sir; she was married to Ekdahl then.
Mr. Jenner.
Did they visit you once in a while?
Mrs. Murret.
With Mr. Ekdahl?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mrs. Murret.
No; never. She was living in Texas at that time, but this was during the summer that she stayed at Covington.
Mr. Jenner.
Where was Mr. Ekdahl during the summer when she was at Covington?
Mrs. Murret.
Mr. Ekdahl was traveling for the company, but she couldn't travel with him because she had the boys during vacation time, and then Lee became of school age and he had to go to school. Now, at that time houses were hard to get, and even hotel rooms, I mean, when you were traveling and so forth, so she agreed to stay over in Covington and send Lee to school in Covington rather than go back to Texas. Now, whether she stayed with Lee when he went to school or not, I don't know.
The next I heard, well, she was back in Texas. Now, I don't know about that, how that came about, but she had this duplex. Now, if she had bought this duplex or not at one time herself, I don't know, but she had spoke something about buying a duplex.
Mr. Jenner.
Here in New Orleans?
Mrs. Murret.
No; in Texas, Fort Worth. So it seems like this is what she told me; that's how I knew so much of her family life, from what she told me. So then, she told me that when they left Covington, they went back to Texas to this duplex, and now, she lived either in the upper or lower part of this duplex, but anyway, one morning she was outside in the yard and this lady who lived either in the upper or lower, whichever way it was, came out into the yard and my sister
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