Mr. Jenner.

You how it was?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Uh-huh. It was, I remember. I don't---

Mr. Jenner.

Do you remember the color?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

No. One of them was blue, and I don't know which one or anything about it.

Mr. Jenner.

I See.
Miss DOUTHIT. Let me ask her something.

Mary, would it help you to remember this if you would just begin, you were out in the yard, and you went around and interviewed this man there, did you stand in the yard, or go in your room and talk? Did he put up his things then before he came across the hall to talk to you? When did he ask you about groceries? After he signed your register did he go back in his room and hang his clothes up, or what happened? Would it help if you just sit here idly without anybody asking you questions and see? Did you go back out in the yard after he paid you the money, and while he was gone---if you can, just retrace your steps without anybody interrupting you. Could you begin and go again out in the yard, and went around and saw this man here, and he told you he wanted to rent a room, whether you stood on the porch and talked to him, or whether he brought his things and you went on and showed him the room? How far is the room from where your front door was? If you go down a hall, how far? Did you go over there and talk to him and make arrangements about the rent of the room? Did he hang up his clothes while he was in the room?
Did he if you can just trace your steps and give it to him. I ask you to do that, and I know it is confusing, but that's all he wants.

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Well, I am getting tired.

Miss DOUTHIT. All he wants is the truth, and I thought maybe you might, for the sake of the record, you know----

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Well, I would have---we have said most everything.
Miss DOUTHIT. I know it, but just do it one more time. The man was standing at your front door----

Mrs. Bledsoe.

I am getting tired, because I have had a stroke, you see.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did you go back out in the yard?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

No; I stayed in.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did he leave your house twice? Now, you said he went and got a bag and brought it back?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Yes; he did, brought back the bag.
Miss DOUTHIT. Then he went back again?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Uh-huh.
Miss DOUTHIT. How long was he---all I want to know is just, if you can just tell that in your own words without any questions. Could you just do that?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Well, I'd rather they asked, because---
Miss DOUTHIT. I know, but it is hard for them to ask these particular questions, because they don't know exactly what happened. All they want to do is to say that you were in the room with him, and put this little bag down and hung up his clothes, and came across the hall and signed the register, see.

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Well, that's all. I don't know whether he put his clothes and what in the other room. I don't know whether he put his bag---
Miss DOUTHIT. Was there a closet in there?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Yes.
Miss DOUTHIT. Well, were you with him when he put the clothes in the closet, or did you go on across the hall and leave him?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Oh, no; I didn't pay any attention to him.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did you leave his presence---Mary, pardon me, I am not--- this is not for the record.

Mr. Jenner.

No; that's fine, leave it on the record.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right. When the man was on your front porch.

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Yes.
Miss DOUTHIT. He had a blue bag in there?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Uh-huh.
Miss DOUTHIT. And you don't know whether it was round or bulging, you just don't know?