Mrs. Pitts. I guess when I talked to him—after I hung up I called my daughter and told her about it, said, “He sure sounded funny to me.” And, so, she said, “Are you going, mama?” And I said, “No.” And, directly my little bitty granddaughter, the oldest granddaughter there, and they says, “Is this name Jack Ruby, Rubinstein, or something?” And I said, “No; Jack Ruby.” Says, “Well, that news is where—there he done killed a man.” But I said, “Killed who?” So, she said—“Oswald.” Well, it didn’t—this Oswald, I don’t know nothing about him, so, I said, “That isn’t him, because this is Rubinstein. It’s Ruby is what he told me.” All I ever did know was Jack Ruby, so, I called my daughter again, and I says to her, I says, “They’ll show that on TV, and they call the dog Sheba”—there, that’s him, and I said, “You stay there and look and call me back.”
I still kept working, because I didn’t think it was him, so, she—directly she called me and says, “Yes.” It is on TV and is a little, short, heavy man kind of bald-headed, I say, “Yes.” And called me back and said where he lived, and sure enough, and I said, I knowed there was something wrong with that man. I didn’t go on over there—and was glad that I didn’t go. No doubt when—went over there when he was talking the way he was talking he would turned around there and shot me.
Mr. Hubert. Explain that a little bit. I don’t think you have told us much about what he told you. As I understand your testimony he seemed a little vague, but, he told you to come on and clean but call before?
Mrs. Pitts. Yes, sir.
Mr. Hubert. Then, he told you that he thought he would be back by 2 o’clock?
Mrs. Pitts. He told me be sure and call.
Mr. Hubert. What was strange about that?
Mrs. Pitts. Well, see, he asked me that two or three times, now, was I coming over, and what was I coming over there for, and I had to tell him, and told him that I was coming to work.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, it was several times, Mrs. Pitts?
Mrs. Pitts. Yes, sir.