Mr. Hubert. What happened to the money you did receive?
Mrs. Grant. Earl has checks that were made out directly to Belli, which I think he himself cashed about $13,200.
Mr. Hubert. Who is “he”?
Mrs. Grant. Mr. Melvin Belli. I do know that the doctors were paid and that may have run to $3,500, and we do know that Bob Dennison received $4,000. I cannot give you step by step because I do not have it, but Earl has an accounting of all the money received through the efforts of that story; however, Earl has spent—I don’t know how many thousands. In the first place, I think Earl put in $7,000 right away for things, but he took it out later.
Mr. Hubert. Do you know how much has been received all told—you say about $23,000 as a result of the story?
Mrs. Grant. That’s as much as I know. This is what I know. There may have been some money—we were supposed to get money in later, but I don’t know if we got it.
Mr. Hubert. Were there any other people or organizations that contributed any money?
Mrs. Grant. No; well——
Mr. Hubert. Or, do you know?
Mrs. Grant. Yes; I know. But I’m trying to think how to tell it to you. Recently we received $100 from Walter Winchell in the last 10 days. We received $250 a month ago from friends back in Chicago. Then there is a lot of 5’s and 10’s—I guess I, myself, could not go into that account, by the way. In the city of Dallas, I received $245 that I had given to Eileen to reimburse Earl. We put that in a Jack’s defense fund. I received that amount, then that was December and January—those months, and then in March or April, I think I also took $110—let me tell you, the money comes into the county building, you know, the checks, and when I say I received it, it doesn’t come directly to me.