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(Testimony of Mrs. Lillian Murret Resumed)
Mrs. Murret.
whatever it was, and then I believe he graduated from high school, Robert did, and then I think he was in love with some little Italian girl who was a crippled girl, and she told me that the family liked Robert a lot and they were trying to get the two together to get married, but she wanted to break that up because the girl was crippled, but Robert said he loved the girl, but she was thinking that he was young and he just thought he loved the girl, and maybe if he did marry her he would find out that he didn't like her because of her being handicapped, and all that happened in there. I don't know all the details, but, anyway, Robert went in the Marines, and that ended that. He went in the Marines on his 17th birthday, as I recall.
Mr. Jenner.
The same as Lee Harvey?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes, sir; that must have been right after graduation. Robert was sort of a nice-looking boy, I think, but, anyway, she told me that these Italian people were trying to make a marriage between Robert and this handicapped girl. That's what she said. I don't know anything about that, really; so then Robert went in the marines, and she got a job in New York. They went to New York about that time, and she got a job with the same people that she had been working for here.
Mr. Jenner.
Hosiery?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; it was the same people, but Lee didn't want to go to school over there; so he was a sort of a problem by not going to school, and one day when she was at work they came to the apartment and they got him and they took him off and put him in this place, and she had to get a lawyer, and the lawyer got him out of the place, and he told her that she had better get out of New York as fast as she could with this boy, and that's all I know about that story. And then it must have been on the way back--I didn't even know she had went to New York, but anyway, on the way back she must have come looking for a place to stay here in New Orleans, and she came to my house and we put her up for I don't know how long. It was during that time that Robert was getting out of the marines, because Robert met her at my house after she had been staying there a couple of weeks or a month, or whatever it was, and they all went back to Texas, and I didn't hear from them for a while.
Mr. Jenner.
Let me interrupt you here a minute, Mrs. Murret.. I will get back to that again in a moment. According to your story, when Ekdahl died, they remained in Texas until they went to New York; is that right?
Mrs. Murret.
Well, I imagine that was after she separated and after Robert graduated from high school. I assume that was the time she went to New York. I don't know if I'm right on that or not.
Mr. Jenner.
Does the late summer of 1952 refresh your recollection as to when she went to New York?
Mrs. Murret.
1952?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; 1952, when she went to New York.
Mrs. Murret.
Well, she was living here--let's see----
Mr. Jenner.
Well, she was living in Fort Worth before going to New York, I believe. Do you think that would have been in the summer of 1952?
Mrs. Murret.
I can't recollect that. Maybe if you give me a lead, I might remember.
Mr. Jenner.
Is the name of Ewing Street in Fort Worth, Tex. familiar to you?
Mrs. Murret.
No; I don't know that one.
Mr. Jenner.
Does Eighth Avenue refresh your recollection any as to an address where they lived in Fort Worth?
Mrs. Murret.
I never heard from her at that address, unless that was the house that she bought, and she was having trouble with the party that bought it.
Mr. Jenner.
You mean she was having trouble with the purchaser?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; he was supposed to pay rent to her. You see, she always wanted to do everything herself, and he wasn't paying her the rent, and I don't think they was paying the other, and they lost out on the deal.
Mr. Jenner.
She reported that to you?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; she told me about that. Now, I don't know if that's the
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