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(Testimony of Mrs. Myrtle Evans)
Mrs. Evans.
Well, she let him. You see, he had been collecting insurance at the house, and had spoken to Margie.
Mr. Jenner.
At whose house?
Mrs. Evans.
At the Murret house, and he had played with the baby. No, let's see, John was the baby at that time, and she was separated or divorced from her husband. I forget which now. But he supported John.
Mr. Jenner.
You mean Mr. Pic supported John? You are talking about John Pic now?
Mrs. Evans.
Yes; he continued to support him and he sent a baby crib, and he did everything like that, but he didn't want to live with her because of the child, so John never did see his father until he was, oh, about 18 years old, or something like that, so that's why those two boys were so close in age, you see, because she met Oswald, and he started taking her out. He asked her if she would go out to dinner with him, and she had been away from her husband for a year and a half or 2 years, and so she did, and then she married him, and she had this baby right away, which is Robert, and they bought a home out around Alvar somewhere, She never told me all this now; some of it I heard from other sources, like her sister and others, but she did tell me a lot of it, because we got to be real good friends.
She bought that home, and they had the two boys, and they were very happy, and then one day he was out mowing the lawn, and he had this terrific pain, and she was several months pregnant with, Lee. She called the doctor right away, but before the doctor could get there, the man was dead. He had a blood clot, so he left her with two babies and one on the way.
Now, he left her with $10,000, I think, in insurance, so she sold her home, and by that time her two boys were old enough, so she put them in this home Evangeline, I think it is, but I'm not sure about that, and she bought a home over on--what's the name of that street back off of St. Claude?
Mr. Jenner.
Bartholomew?
Mrs. Evans.
Yes; I guess that's it. Now, she put the boys in this home.
Mr. Jenner.
The Bethlehem home?
Mrs. Evans.
Yes, Bethlehem; that's it. That's when I became friendly with her again. She was living with her sister for a while, and Lee was with her, and the two older boys were at the home. She was paying her sister board. But now after her husband died, she went to work, and she had a woman taking care of the little boy.
Mr. Jenner.
You mean Lee?
Mrs. Evans.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Why did she live there, do you know?
Mrs. Evans.
You mean on Bartholomew Street?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mrs. Evans.
Well, it was cheaper. She bought a cheaper home. She had lived on Alvar after she married Oswald. But after Oswald's death she moved to Bartholomew. Wait a minute---I might be getting those streets confused. No, I guess that's right. Anyway, when Oswald died he left her this $10,000 in insurance, and now I don't know whether the home was completely paid for or not, but she immediately put these boys in that home and went to work.
Mr. Jenner.
Is it your information that she immediately went to work rather than try to live for a while without working?
Mrs. Evans.
She might have lived for a month or two, or something, without working, because I wasn't in contact with her, you see, but she had got this couple to come and stay with Lee, and someone said.
Mr. Jenner.
What couple was that?
Mrs. Evans.
I don't know what couple it was---somebody; she had put an ad in the paper or something---some young couple. I don't know their names. She said people told her that when Lee was in the high chair, that he used to cry a lot, and they thought they were whipping little Lee, so she came home unexpectedly one night, and the child had welts on his legs, and she told them to get out and get out now.
So then from there she bought another house and sold that, and---now, this is
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