business, and he said Joe found my files. He said I know he went
through everything you had.
He and I had a partnership in a business, and I put up all the money
and it went sour and so we had problems,
Q: You and Stan Friedman actually made an effort to try and find
that, didn’t you?
A: We went down there, The old file was right where I said it
was, it was still there. But it was, Stan will tell you, we went down in this
old basement, and I knew exactly,., See, I kept files on every case that I was
involved in, murders, anything that I went to court on, that I was a witness
on, I kept all that. I called those my personal files. If I ever had to go back
with the insurance companies or anything, I had it all right there, That’s why
I had those.
Q: You found the filing cabinet but there was nothing in it?
A: No. We went thmugh it. There wasn’t a thing in it. Stanand I both,
Q: They’d stripped it out, or was there other stuff in there...
A: There wasn’t anything in there
Q: After all of that excitement, then what? Did it just kind of
evaporate?
A: It just kind of evaporated. Then of course two or three days
later, I was concerned about her because she was sick. I took her back to the
nurse’s quarters and let her out. I called back the next day and they said she
wasn’t on duty, and I called the next day and they said she wasn’t on duty.
Then I went out there, for some reason, I don’t recah. I went out there and
I asked about the lieutenant, and they said she’d been transferred out. They
said, “She was transferred out yesterday.” Well, that was the day after I saw
her. They got her out the next day.
Q: Who told you she’d been transferred out?
A: I don’t know. Some nurses,,.
Q: It wasn’t anybody that you remember?
A: No,
Q: Did they tell you where she’d been shipped to?
A: They didn’t know. They said she had been transferred, and
that’s all they knew.
Q: But then you heard from her subsequently,
A: About three or four weeks later. I got a card addressedto
Ballard Funeral Home. It was from her, and inside it just said, just a short
note, she said we will correspond later to see what happened to each other,
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