Mr. Jenner. Now, you have already touched on some information regarding when he went to Russia. Marguerite communicated with you about the fact that he was in Russia; is that right?
Mrs. Murret. Well, like I said, my son-in-law contacted her because we hadn't heard from her in a very long time, so he looked in the telephone book over there and found her number.
Mr. Jenner. What is your son-in-law's name?
Mrs. Murret. Emile O'Brien. He called her and he told us that she said that she had this accident, like I told you before, so I called her, I think, or her brother—I can't remember which. Anyway, we sent her a box of clothes at Christmas time, anything that we could think of, and then I sent her money at different times during the week, as much as I could afford and so forth, and she said she was trying to get this hardship discharge for Lee so he could leave the Marines and come home.
It was pretty near time for him to get out, but when he came in, he only stayed there for 2 days at her house, or 1 day, or whatever it was, and he said, "Well, this is it; this is not for me," and he left, and that's when she called me and she said she thought he was coming to New Orleans and that he would be coming by bus, she thought, and that maybe he would be coming to my house, but for me not to tell him that she had called me, but I never saw Lee or anything.
Mr. Jenner. Did he contact you at all?
Mrs. Murret. No; I never saw Lee or never heard any more from him until the next thing I knew was when she told me she received this letter, I think, from Russia.
Mr. Jenner. She called you and told you about that?
Mrs. Murret. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Now, during all this time that he was in the Marines, he didn't write you, did he?