Mrs. Evans.

what she told me; she told me that she bought this little double house, and she ran a sweet shop for a while in the front room there.

Mr. Jenner.

She told you that she sold that house and bought a double?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes, as I recall, she did.

Mr. Jenner.

What's a "double"?

Mrs. Evans.

That's really two houses, side by side; you have a door here and a door here, two entrances. They call them flats or duplexes some places, but we call them doubles.

Mr. Jenner.

O.K. I just wanted to make sure the record is clear on that.

Mrs. Evans.

She bought that little house, and they moved in there with her three children.

Mr. Jenner.

Was that over at 831 Pauline Street?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, that sounds like the address. I never went there myself. I don't even know where Pauline Street is, to tell you the truth. It's downtown some place. Then she left there, and Lee, I think, still was with the aunt, and the two boys were down at the other place that home, and she got this job managing the hosiery store on Canal Street, and that's when I started seeing her again, and that was between 1939 and 1940, somewhere in there; around in there---the early 1940's, I would say.

Mr. Jenner.

At that time she was living where now?

Mrs. Evans.

She was living with her sister then, I think, and Lee was with her, and the two boys were boarding at the Bethlehem Home. She would go down on Sundays to see her two boys.

Mr. Jenner.

How long did she remain with her sister?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, I don't know how long she had been with her sister, but after she took this position, she finally went to Texas, and I don't know--I couldn't tell you how long, because I just started seeing her, well, we would see each other on Saturday afternoon or Sunday, something like that, you know, just go around a bit together.

Mr. Jenner.

How old was Lee at about that time, about 3 or 2, or what?

Mrs. Evans.

He was 3 or 4 years old then.

Mr. Jenner.

He eventually was placed in the Bethlehem Home also, wasn't he?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, she might have finally got him in, because her sister, as you know, had a big family of her own, and I think maybe she might have finally put him in there too.
You see, they only take them at these places after a certain age, generally about three, I think. They have to be trained and all, and that's why Lee was always with her before that, and all her love, I think, she dumped on Lee after her husband died.
You know, she felt awful sorry for Lee, because he never knew his father. He was born after his father died, and he was his baby, and she always sort of felt sorry for Lee for that reason, I think, and sort of leaned toward Lee. She felt sorry for Lee because he never knew his father, I think, just as any mother would.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, we have information that from sometime in 1939 to 1941, she resided on Alvar Street in New Orleans; does that square with your recollection?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, Alvar, that was where she had her home, wasn't it, on Alvar?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mrs. Evans.

I was told it was in that subdivision.

Mr. Jenner.

And do you recall her selling that house?

Mrs. Evans.

No; she told me she sold it, but I wasn't too friendly with her at the time, and I didn't know anything about that. I was working, and I didn't play cards then, you see.
She was a friend of a friend of mine actually, that I played cards with, and I wasn't too friendly With the girl at first, but only through cards, but at the time I was sorry for her when I first learned what her husband had done to her, but later on I lost contact with her all the way up till just about the time she went to Texas, or maybe it was about a year before she went to Texas. It's