Mr. JENNER. Did he say he was going to be stationed there?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he said he was going to be.
Mr. JENNER. And that is over at Biloxi, Miss.?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; but he never did come over and see us, and he never did write. I asked him to write, but he didn't write, and I never heard any more from him. I didn't even know that he was back from Russia.
Mr. JENNER. And you didn't know that he had gone to Russia either; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right; I didn't know he had gone over there at all. I didn't know he went until after he went.
Mr. JENNER. How did you learn he was in Russia? Did his mother tell you that he was in Russia?
Mrs. MURRET. That he had defected, yes. That was about the time she had this accident, I remember, and then he got out of the Marines.
Mr. JENNER. Now, that was before he defected; right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that was before he went to Russia. He got out of the Marines and he came to see her, and he had all that money, but he didn't give her any of it, I don't think, but $10. I think he gave her $10, she told me, and then he left, supposedly to come to New Orleans, so she thought, so I didn't hear from her any more until she learned by him from letter that he was in Russia.
Mr. JENNER. So she told you that; is that right?
Mr. JENNER. Was the fact that he had defected prominently displayed in the New Orleans papers?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, not here so much, but in Fort Worth and so forth, over there, they mentioned it; they made quite a to do about it.
Mr. JENNER. There was nothing in the New Orleans papers about it?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think. There might have been.
Mr. JENNER. Well, at least it didn't come to your attention?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think they had anything here about that at all, but they did have it a lot in the Fort Worth paper.
Mr. JENNER. Did she send any of those newspaper clippings to you?
Mr. JENNER. And she told you all about it?
Mrs. MURRET. She told me all about it, what she knew about it. She didn't know too much about it, she said, why he did it or anything like that, but she said that he had a right to go any place he wanted to go, I believe.
Mr. JENNER. Did she seem to think he was living in the pattern that she had brought him up in?