Mr. Griffin. Was there anybody in that—how many waitresses did he have? Carhops and so forth?
Mrs. Helmick. Carhops, there was me and Toyo, and 4 waitresses—this is during the daytime?
Mr. Griffin. Yes.
Mrs. Helmick. There was Bonnie and Rose.
Mr. Griffin. Who did he have in the evening?
Mrs. Helmick. I believe his name was Joe, and his wife was working nights. She had just started right after I started to work there. I don’t remember if there was anybody else working there as a waitress, but there was a girl named Joe, a tall blond-headed girl, and a girl had just gotten out of the hospital and was coming back to work about three or four nights after I was working there. I can’t remember her name, but we all chipped in to buy her something, some kind of gift. It was a nightgown. And she started to work there again after I did, but I don’t remember her name. But I would recognize all them people if I saw them again.
Mr. Griffin. Have you thought of anything else that might be helpful to us in this regard?
Mrs. Helmick. Now I may not know anything that would help you, but surely I am not the only one that heard this. I know that I am not, and Rose and everybody that was standing around there at that counter hearing Ralph talk, they all know what I have just said. But whether they heard the conversation on the telephone that night, if they did, I don’t know. They wouldn’t tell me but I didn’t ask any of them. But they never did say. Them people were quiet. They kept everything to theirselves. The reason I didn’t call anybody, I was afraid to get involved, really. And I didn’t know that I could be of help to anybody.
Mr. Griffin. Has anybody suggested to you that you shouldn’t get involved?
Mrs. Helmick. No one ever suggested anything; because I didn’t believe that it was—I mean I figured that they would find it out sooner or later, and I didn’t figure that it was anything that anybody was hiding. I mean, I wasn’t hiding it.