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~2-< . , . a Ae eae eee the Christian Parsonage on South Walnut St. Commerce, Oklahoma ~~. where I worked for six month while. there she told me about some 3... of the wen that had worked for thes on the farm taking sudden notions to Jeave without being paid, one she said was chopoing wood end had cut. ‘em. enoraous pile of wood during her husbands absence slipced off with- out eaying he was leaving, Another had worked for thene long tine end she said he bad worn hie clothes all out! left in a run one day after dinner when her husband was in town she said she heard the screen door slam and looked out and he had a kit of shoes cobblers fools thst were heavy and was going in a mm she called him and . asked what's the matter and he replied the longer I work the raggeder ZI get) her husband met hie but didn't stop just drove on home and asked her why he was leaving they both went back toward Vinit, overtook him and Jeff ask him what's the matter? he kept right on running and said the longer IJ work the reggeder I get! and wouldnt | get in their car though thay pronised to carry hie to tom, then , Jeff threw him a doller and he would not stop to pick it Upe - Mrs, Vesper Foust or Mra, T. J. Foust told ne her husband alwa,;s blamed himself for his Mother's death on Christnas dey at Reasho, Wissourl, She was mirdered ehot to death, by a former. husband, ehe was a sister to V. P, NoGhee attorngy of Micali, OkLahone. ' Mrs. T, J. Foust has a daughter naned Josephine whe left - Comserce for Wheeler Ridge California the day before I went to work for Mra, Foust and in the late autum I heard Vesper tell Jeff if we could get rid of Kenneth, Josephine could marry Carl, Soneone” nased pane? Kenneth called after dark the weck before Christoas, I dia oot see hie but his voice was that of e man, he askeded Little Thomas to read for him laughed a forced sounding laugh several tines during the time Tomale was reading and left quickly after Tomzie had read all he knew but while I was looking for the Primzer I heard Vesper or Mrs, Foust ask hin if he ever heard fron Josephine? I didn get the snswer, Mre. Foust told Jeff after Kenneth loft — that Kenneth only gave her $3.00 ef that 00 @ month he for Tousten : board and clothes, “ ts ; A o os 2. Then the week after Christaas two young men called ‘after dark and asked Jeff for a loan, he did not ask them in but stesped out on the Poreh, I hear a round of supzressed laughter but didnt understand a word of their conversation, for Jeff had partly closed the door after chasing little Thomas back into the housel though he was | generally allowed to pry into every kind of conversation.