Mr. HUBERT. May I examine her just a little on that point?
Mr. BURLESON. Yes; go ahead.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever find out whether it was true that Mr. Howard
was doing this?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, since then I heard it was true, but doubly true
there’s some girl that works for one of your departments who heard and
who told another person that there is evidence there is a picture of
that kind in existence.
Mr. HUBERT. You have never seen the picture?
Mrs. GRANT. No; I haven’t. I also heard several days before the
assassination there was a pamphlet put in all the drugstores where you
sell magazines and was distributed all through the city of Dallas with
the late President’s picture, and the top of its says, “Wanted” and the
bottom had a number like a jailman, you know, a convict, and the day of
the assassination, early that afternoon these distributors had a devil
of a time trying to remember all the places they placed that particular
pamphlet, that was for sale for 10 cents or 15 cents.
Mr. BURLESON. Come back up to his question.
Mr. HUBERT. I just wanted to explore whether or not it had come to your
knowledge whether the story was the truth or not?
Mrs. GRANT. This all came to me—call me back on the word “communism”
that I said later on, if you want?
Mr. BURLESON. Do you know anything else about this alleged sale of the
picture?
Mrs. GRANT. Nothing, but Earl told me to get ahold of the men here and
I did and I called the office and Elmer Moore came out and I told him.
Mr. BURLESON. All right. Coming back—along about this time—did you,
Earl, and Stanley Kaufman and so forth enter into some kind of a
contract with Mr. Howard where he would withdraw from the case?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. BURLESON. Did you pay him some money?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes; the first week he was in, I had a little money and I
think it was when I sold the Vegas Club and I think I had $1,600 and I
had bills to pay but I didn’t pay them and I gave him $200.
Mr. BURLESON. At the time that you terminated his services in the case,
did you pay him some money then?
Mrs. GRANT. We gave him a check for $2,000—we gave him $2,700
altogether, but I gave him $2,000 when he signed the contract to step
out of the case.