Mrs. PITTS. I didn’t think he might hear--that is, he might hurt me,
but I was scared something was wrong with him by him asking me that two
or three times and he never did ask me that. And I always would call
him.
Mr. HUBERT. Go ahead.
Mrs. PITTS. I would always call him and say I would be there. There was
going to be nobody there. At times he would be leaving and take the dog
along because I don’t work where there’s dogs.
Mr. HUBERT. What dog?
Mrs. PITTS. Sheba. I’ve been dog-bit twice so, I am just scared of
dogs, and I don’t go where dogs is in the place, and that is the reason
I refused to go when the manager opened the door for me and told me she
would put him in the bathroom, and I told her I would go on home and
come back again.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he have a gun in that apartment?
Mrs. PITTS. I never did see it. I never did.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he carry a lot of money?
Mrs. PITTS. He did.
Mr. HUBERT. How do you know?
Mrs. PITTS. Well, there would be on the coffee table top, dining room
table, on his dresser, be behind the dresser, on the floor. I would
pick it up and put in those things, brown envelope sacks and sack it
up, and put it on the dresser.
Mr. HUBERT. Lots of money?
Mrs. PITTS. Well, I guess it was right smart, but it wasn’t no--way up
in the hundreds or----
Mr. HUBERT. Rolls of money?
Mrs. PITTS. No; just loose money.
Mr. HUBERT. That was on several times that you noticed that?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; lots of times, because I refused to clean his
dresser off, and his coffee table, and the manager told me, said, “Jack
Ruby said I had left the coffee table and dresser, and I said,” “Do you
know why?” And say, “No.” “Because he had money laying all over both
the table and on his dresser, and on the table.” And I says--“and I
don’t dust them, because I don’t--by him being a Jewish man, I don’t
want him to say I taken the money, you know. I don’t steal, you know
that.”
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mrs. PITTS. He says, “No.”
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know a man by the name of Andrew Armstrong?
Mrs. PITTS. Now, he had a man staying there with him once.
Mr. HUBERT. Colored man, I am talking about?
Mrs. PITTS. And--oh, Andrew? Well, I seen this Andrews down in the
courthouse. He had called out there several times when I was there,
and----
Mr. HUBERT. While you were working?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; this Andrews did, and he would ask for Ruby, and
I would tell him, you know, and whenever Ruby come in you tell him that
I am ready to go and he would just say, “Ain’t there some money laying
around?” And I said, “No, he can pay me himself. No, I’d rather for him
to put it out for me himself.”
Mr. HUBERT. You never met Andrew Armstrong?