Mr. JENNER. That was a telephone conversation you had with her?
Mr. JENNER. Was this then in this spring; the late spring of 1959?
Mr. JENNER. Because he got out of the service in September of 1959.
Mrs. MURRET. That's right, because after he defected here, she visited here. Now, when I talked to her over the telephone, and she told me what it was costing her financially and everything, that's when they let him out of the service, right after that, I think.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir, and so then Lee came home, and she was living in this one room; so Lee stayed there 1 or 2 days, whatever it was, and then he said, "Well, this is not for me."
Mrs. MURRET. Lee said that. Lee had money that he had saved. He had saved over $1,000 or $1,400--I don't know the amount--but after he got home and stayed there 1 day, he said, "Well, this is not for me; I'm leaving."
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; so he left. She thought he was coming to New Orleans; so she called me and she said that he had left by bus, and that she thought he was coming to New Orleans, and that he had worked as a runner when he was here for a while for Tujague's, and she thought he might be coming here for that reason, and that he may stop at my house, but not to tell him that she had called me, but Lee never did stop at the house. If he did, I didn't know it.
Mrs. MURRET. No; he didn't call. I never heard from him, and I was waiting, and I have always felt that if he had only stopped at the house, you know, this might not have happened.
Mr. JENNER. What do you think would have happened if he had stopped by or called?
Mrs. MURRET. I think we might have been able to help him get a job, or maybe we couldn't have done anything; I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. Well, you would have tried, anyhow.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; anyway, we didn't see Lee, and I had to go out that afternoon and I was under the impression, I thought maybe he did come, you know, pass by, and I asked some children in the block if they had seen somebody in the house and they said yes, that they saw someone with a small suitcase, but afterward I thought it was the Fuller brush man. I thought that afterward. So then I didn't know anything any more about Lee.
Mr. JENNER. Could we stop there a minute and go back over this? After the divorce from Ekdahl, did she continue to live in Texas?