Mr. Rankin. What did he say to that?
Mrs. Oswald. He said he would buy me a washing machine.
Mr. Rankin. What did you say to that?
Mrs. Oswald. Thank you. That it would be better if he bought something for himself—that I would manage.
Mr. Rankin. Did this seem to make him more upset, when you suggested that he wait about getting an apartment for you to live in?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. He then stopped talking and sat down and watched television and then went to bed. I went to bed later. It was about 9 o'clock when he went to sleep. I went to sleep about 11:30. But it seemed to me that he was not really asleep. But I didn't talk to him.
In the morning he got up, said goodbye, and left, and that I shouldn't get up—as always, I did not get up to prepare breakfast. This was quite usual.
And then after I fed Rachel, I took a look to see whether Lee was here, but he had already gone. This was already after the police had come. Ruth told me that in the evening she had worked in the garage and she knows that she had put out the light but that the light was on later—that the light was on in the morning. And she guessed that Lee was in the garage.
But I didn't see it.
Mr. Rankin. Did she tell you when she thought your husband had been in the garage, what time of the day?