Mr. HUBERT. The Dallas area?
Mrs. PITTS. I guess and he didn’t have no job. He would work there to
pay for his room, is what the boy told me, but I didn’t pay too much
attention to him, because I was getting ready to go.
Mr. HUBERT. You only saw him on two occasions?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Was Mr. Ruby there when you saw him?
Mrs. PITTS. Mr. Ruby, come in when I was getting ready to leave, and
this boy had some--and I think then he was telling the boy to get ready
to go down to the club and I was getting ready to go out the door.
Mr. HUBERT. You fixed that as being in the summertime?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Then the boy left?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; he did. I don’t know. I guess it was summertime.
I don’t even know, but it was kind of hot weather. Might have been fall.
Mr. HUBERT. Was he living there at the time Mr. Ruby got in the trouble?
Mrs. PITTS. Oh, goodness no.
Mr. HUBERT. He had left?
Mrs. PITTS. He had been gone a long time. That was in the wintertime.
I don’t even know to tell you how much attention I paid to this
boy. I didn’t even know him when I come out of the drug store and I
said something to one of my middle granddaughters--got a paper and
something, and boy turned around and said, “Hello there.” And I looked
at him, and then he--“Don’t you remember me?” And I said, “Oh, yes, I
believe I do now.” I says, “You was living with Ruby?” And he says,
“Yes, I thought sure you’d remember me.” And I said, “Yes.”
Mr. HUBERT. When was that?
Mrs. PITTS. That was when Ruby had been in the trouble, and he was in
the street, and I come in the drug store, and he was stopping out there
fixing to get into his car.
Mr. HUBERT. Where was that?
Mrs. PITTS. Where was that?
Mr. HUBERT. The drug store.
Mrs. PITTS. Corner of Cornell and Ewing, there. The drug store where he
was.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know where that man works?
Mrs. PITTS. Work? No, no. I don’t know that. Mr. George Senator, now,
would know him, and could tell you where he is. I don’t even remember
the boy’s name, but I know--and into my work, and get through, and so,
I never seen but twice.
Mr. HUBERT. The time you saw him at the drug store, though, he was
getting into his automobile, was that after Mr. Ruby got into trouble?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. How long after, about?
Mrs. PITTS. I don’t know just how long.
Mr. HUBERT. Around Christmastime or before the trial?
Mrs. PITTS. Well, yes; it was before the trial, as I had never been
down here. At least I hadn’t been down here, and I don’t know if he had
been or not, but he did tell me the FBI men had been out talking to him?
Mr. HUBERT. After New Year’s that you saw him?
Mrs. PITTS. I just don’t know how--when it was. Might have been after
New Year’s, but I know it hadn’t been down here, you know, at the
trial. And he said they had been out to talk to him and found him and
talked with him, so, I guess he told them, you know, where he was. Told
me he was living over at the Freeman’s Apartments, and I don’t know if
he is still over there or not.
Mr. HUBERT. Once again, he doesn’t look like the man whose pictures I
showed you?
Mrs. PITTS. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, have you ever been interviewed by any member of
the Commission’s staff before? I am a member of the Commission’s staff,
and have you been interviewed by me before this?
Mrs. PITTS. No, sir; I don’t think so.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, you have never seen me before today, isn’t that right?
Mrs. PITTS. That’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. Then there was no interview between you and me before we
began this deposition?
Mrs. PITTS. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, Elnora, thank you very much.
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir.