Mrs. Murret.

over in Fort Worth, but anyway, she was having a hard time of it over there, and she either wrote me or called me--I don't remember which, but anyway, I told her that I would help her out, to send Lee down here for a while, and she sent Lee by train over here, and the train was about 2 hours late.

Mr. Jenner.

Where did he come from at that time, from Texas?

Mrs. Murret.

From Texas; yes, sir, and I asked him, I said, "Lee did you meet anyone on the train? Did you talk to anybody?" And he said, "No, I didn't talk to anybody. My mother told me not to talk to anybody." Of course, that's a good thing sometimes, not to talk to strangers, but I guess that was one of the reasons he was so much by himself. Anyway, he stayed with us for a while.

Mr. Jenner.

For how long?

Mrs. Murret.

About 2 weeks, 3 weeks, maybe more, until she got on her feet, and we took Lee out to ball games and bought him things, and we tried to make him happy, but it seemed like he just didn't want to get out of the house. I mean, he wouldn't go out and play. He would just rather stay in the house and read or something.

Mr. Jenner.

He wouldn't want to go out and play with the other children?

Mrs. Murret.

No, he wouldn't. We didn't have a television. Even though I had a husband, my sister always seemed to have more than I had. She was working, and somehow she had an automobile and a television and things that I didn't have. It was years after television had come out before we had one. We did have a radio, and Lee would take it in the back room and listen to the radio and read. He would read funnybooks and I would try to get him to go outside and play with the other children, but he wouldn't go out, so finally I just made him get out, so he did for a day or so, but then he came right back in and would go right back to reading and listening to the radio, and I practically pushed him out again, because I didn't think it was healthy for him to stay in the house all the time, just to stay in that room by himself, but finally I decided that that was what he wanted, that that was his way of life, what he wanted to do, and there wasn't much I could do about it.
We took him out after that, but he didn't seem to enjoy himself, so finally I told her to come and get him, that we didn't like for him to be there any more, because we had tried to do all we could for him. Now, maybe she thought we didn't like him, but that wasn't it. It was just that he wouldn't go out and play, and he wanted to be alone in that room all the time, and he wouldn't even talk to the other children, and he was obviously very unhappy, but anyway she came down and got him. In fact, he told her to come and get him.

Mr. Jenner.

How do you know that?

Mrs. Murret.

Because I saw the letter.

Mr. Jenner.

He wrote a letter to her asking her to come and get him?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; I wasn't supposed to see the letter, but I did.

Mr. Jenner.

You saw the letter before it was mailed?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

And he expressed in that letter some discomfort in being at your home, did he?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And he was under the impression that you didn't like him?

Mrs. Murret.

I guess so, because he wrote and told her that nobody around there liked him, and here everyone was knocking themselves out for him.

Mr. Jenner.

Where was your sister living at that time, in Fort Worth?

Mrs. Murret.

I think so; yes.

Mr. Jenner.

On the occasion that she came from New York and stopped off in New Orleans, did she stay with you for a few days?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, she stayed with me until she found an apartment.

Mr. Jenner.

That was in your home at 757 French Street?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes, sir; and that address was changed to 809 French Street.

Mr. Jenner.

How was that?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, it was the same house, but they changed the numbering of that block, but it was the same residence. They changed it to the 700 block.

Mr. Jenner.

And how long did she stay with you on that occasion?