Mrs. Bates. Yes; and if he didn't want to answer a question—if you asked him a question, no matter how simple it was, if he didn't want to answer it, he'd just shut up.
Mr. Jenner. He'd just ignore you?
Mrs. Bates. Uh-huh.
He said he was living with his brother out in Arlington Heights. Well, I lived in Arlington Heights, and I recognized the area he lived in by the telephone number. I said, "Well, where do you live, Lee? I have lived out in that part of town."
He said, "Arlington Heights."
So—that's—that just closed the subject right there. He had nothing else to say. In other words—"Just don't say anything more."
And—uh—I didn't even know he had a mother. He never mentioned his mother. He mentioned his brother; he mentioned his wife—said she liked it over here very much, that she got very ill from the food because it was too rich.
Mr. Jenner. He said that she had become ill?
Mrs. Bates. Uh-huh. That she got the stomach ache, or something, because they hadn't had enough food in a long time.
Mr. Jenner. Your impression was that they——