Mr. HUBERT. Or, do you know?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes; I know. But I’m trying to think how to tell it to you.
Recently we received $100 from Walter Winchell in the last 10 days. We
received $250 a month ago from friends back in Chicago. Then there is a
lot of 5’s and 10’s—I guess I, myself, could not go into that account,
by the way. In the city of Dallas, I received $245 that I had given
to Eileen to reimburse Earl. We put that in a Jack’s defense fund. I
received that amount, then that was December and January—those months,
and then in March or April, I think I also took $110—let me tell you,
the money comes into the county building, you know, the checks, and
when I say I received it, it doesn’t come directly to me.
I typed up all the money on a list and I sent it on to Eileen with
a check for deposit of $110. That’s the money that I know, but if
we will stop for a minute, I know the hundred, the 250, the 245 and
the hundred—those were plus that $23,000. Now, if there is any other
money—did I tell you any other money? I told you everything there was.
Mr. HUBERT. There are no substantial amounts?
Mrs. GRANT. Oh, no; listen, don’t listen to those reports.
Mr. HUBERT. Except from the result of the selling?
Mrs. GRANT. The big fee was $250 and the story was sold, and we
received—I would say Larry Schiller and Billy Woodfield took 35 percent
of the money—the writer and the agent that sells it of the story. I
know there was $23,000 came in and there may have been more since then.
Mr. HUBERT. In any case, Earl would have more accurate figures?
Mrs. GRANT. Oh, yes.
Mr. HUBERT. As far as you know, in the handling of the money, it is
less than a thousand dollars that came through you?
Mrs. GRANT. I think there is a thousand in all of this money and a few
hopes. The New York Times was very sympathetic and they put an ad in
their paper. Most papers will not take an ad for what you call “Jack
Ruby’s Defense Fund.” The ad cost $150—I think they took it less than
the ad.
Mr. HUBERT. You paid $150?
Mrs. GRANT. I didn’t—someone in Chicago or Earl must have paid it, but
I do know that, that ad went in. Now, if any other little moneys come
in, I don’t have any accounting of it. I know it came in here—this is
the money that I know.
Mr. HUBERT. And to your knowledge, then, what has come through your
hands is less than a thousand dollars?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, let’s see—$245, $110, $250, and $100—I think that’s
about it, unless I have forgotten some, but that’s all I know myself.
Mr. HUBERT. All the rest has been handled by Earl?
Mrs. GRANT. That was for the sale of the short story.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, at the present time who are the attorneys for Jack
Ruby? That he still has? Mr. Tonahill is apparently still in the case?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, we retained Mr. Tonahill and Burleson from the very
first minute and they are still in. Shall I tell him about Belli?
Mr. BURLESON. Go ahead.
Mrs. GRANT. The day of the verdict I got a telephone call that if Belli
don’t get out of town they are going to kill him.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know who the phone call was from?