Mr. Hubert. Can you tell us how you came to engage him in conversation?
Mr. Fenley. He noticed the wire or press message which I had, and it had to do with the assassination, or Oswald, frankly. I can't remember the content of the wire, but we sort of chatted there for a moment, and he recalled that he was certain that Oswald had come into the office on occasion.
I don't know whether he used the word several. I took it to mean that. And received some various small amounts of money orders. And certainly this was interesting to me. We kept chatting and I asked him, now how big were the amounts of the orders, and he said, "I don't think there would be anything over $15, $10 or $15." And I asked him, "Now, you are pretty sure this was Oswald? I mean, the guy you have seen in the pictures and things like that?" And he replied he was. He said, "He used to come in and would give the girls a hard time. He was a cantankerous individual."
Mr. Hubert. Did he mention what girls?
Mr. Fenley. No; not by name. So he said, "I believe the last time"—and he couldn't recall the date or anything—"that he came in, he went himself to wait on the fellow because he knew that he was sort of difficult to deal with." Well, this was certainly interesting to me as a newspaperman.
Mr. Hubert. Had you heard that story before?
Mr. Fenley. No; I had not.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, your coming upon this story was something of a gratuity?
Mr. Fenley. It certainly was. I was slightly amazed. And the other thing, there was a marble countertop there in the office, and he said, or he recalled that Oswald had written in what he described a curious sort of printing with, as best he could tell, he wrote out some letters. For instance, an "N" he said as printed by Oswald would have a high rising right side to it. He said it was a rather curious sort of printing.
Mr. Hubert. Did he demonstrate that to you?