Miss DOUTHIT. Did you leave him in the room and you go on across to
your room? How far is your room from where you rented his room?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Right next to it. No; he came on in, he came on back
behind me.
Miss DOUTHIT. He never left your presence from the time you went in
this room until he came over here?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right, did he put his things in your room--or bring
them with him?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; he left them in the room.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right, you don't know where he put them?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; didn't pay any attention to him.
Miss DOUTHIT. Is there a closet in that room?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Miss DOUTHIT. You don't remember whether he hung his clothes in the
closet?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Miss DOUTHIT. But, he left and came over where you were and signed your
register, and then did he go back into his room or go down the hall and
leave the house?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, went back in his room.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right. You don't know how long he stayed in his room?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Miss DOUTHIT. Now, before he left your room, did he tell you anything
about going and getting additional luggage, or did you know when he
was leaving the room?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I didn't know. He said he was going to get some
groceries but it might have been that he said that he was going, I
don't know. I don't know.
Miss DOUTHIT. Was it when he signed the register that he asked you
about the grocery store, or later?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Later.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right. Then you were in your room when he went back
in his room. Did you see him leave his room and go out of the house?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Miss DOUTHIT. Then where did you go?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Lord have mercy. I don't know.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did you go back out in the yard?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; I don't think I went into the yard. I was fooling
around the house.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right, how far from your room is your kitchen?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Oh, Lord. It is a long ways. It is clear across the
living room and dining room and the kitchen is right there [indicating].
Miss DOUTHIT. All right, but your room is right next to the room you
rented to this man?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Miss DOUTHIT. When did you have knowledge that he was back in his room?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, when--I guess when he brought these--brought the
milk in.
Miss DOUTHIT. How could he go to the grocery store and get milk unless
he had already asked you where the grocery store was?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I guess he did, he had already.
Miss DOUTHIT. Okay, then, it was on his return from getting the bag
that he asked you about the grocery store, is that right? Or do you
remember?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Oh, yes; it wasn't anything said about this when he
rented--about eating. Just--he just rented the room, and not to eat in
there.
Miss DOUTHIT. Now when you had some kind of knowledge, as you just
said, could you hear him back in his room, or could you see him back in
his room after he left the first time?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I heard him.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did he come in and talk to you before he left your house
the second time?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; he never did talk to me at all. He didn't talk.
Miss DOUTHIT. The only conversation you had with this Mrs.--with this
Mr. Oswald was when he came and rented the room and signed the register?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. And what I got out of him. That's all I could get.
Miss DOUTHIT. Now; did you get any information out of him after he
signed the register?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, the next day.
Miss DOUTHIT. I am talking about this one day.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; didn't get much.
Miss DOUTHIT. Then all of your conversation that you had this Monday
that he rented that room took place at one time, is that correct?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. That's correct.
Miss DOUTHIT. Now, he came back, and for some reason you knew he was in
there. When did he leave your house the second time?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. When he went to get the groceries.
Miss DOUTHIT. Well, when?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I don't know.
Miss DOUTHIT. Was he--when he went to leave, did he come in and say,
"I'm going to get some groceries." Did he?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Miss DOUTHIT. You evidently told him about the grocery store the first
time when he signed the register and your conversation with him--
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; I didn't either.
Miss DOUTHIT. Well, you just said you had one conversation with him,
and you had no other conversation with him. Now, just remember these
facts that you had no conversation with him after he paid you the money
and signed the register.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I wouldn't say, because I don't know what he did. I
don't remember.
Miss DOUTHIT. All right, how long after--when he brought his bag back
and put it in this room, how long did he stay in that room until he
left to go to the grocery store, if that is where he went?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Was that the first when he went and got the other bag?
Miss DOUTHIT. Uh-huh.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, 20 or 30 minutes.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did he go and use the telephone, or just stay in his room
all that time?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No, didn't use the phone until--I think he used it after.
Miss DOUTHIT. Did he use your telephone on Monday?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. After the, yes; after he got everything settled, I think
he did. Two or three times every day. Called his wife, supposed to be.
Miss DOUTHIT. You don't know who he called?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; I don't know who he called.
Miss DOUTHIT. But, you don't know anything at all about when you gave
him this information about the grocery store? We are just trying to get
the order here in which this happened, Mrs. Bledsoe, is all, if you can
just remember?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Oh, Lord.
Miss DOUTHIT. That is the reason I asked you if you could, to write
these things down.