Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
A: Well, the funeral home, I hired some guys, the manager up there
now [was there] before I left, and Raymond said that he doesn’t know,
because when he was working up there was another manager, and he
said he thought Joe [Lucas] told (inaudible). Of course Joe and I
weren’t very good friends and we’d had some problems over the funeral
business, and he said Joe found my files. He said I know he went
through everything you had.
He and I had a partnership in a business, and I put up all the money
and it went sour and so we had problems.
Q: You and Stan Friedman actually made an effort to try and find that,
didn’t you?
A: We went down there. The old file was right where I said it was, it
was still there. But it was, Stan will tell you, we went down in this
old basement, and I knew exactly... See, I kept files on every case
that I was involved in, murders, anything that I went to court on, that
I was a witness on, I kept all that. I called those my personal files.
If I ever had to go back with the insurance companies or anything, I
had it all right there. That’s why I had those.
Q: You found the filing cabinet but there was nothing in it?
A: No. We went through it. There wasn’t a thing in it. Stan and I both.
Q: They’d stripped it out, or was there other stuff in there...
A: There wasn’t anything in there.
Q: After all of that excitement, then what? Did it just kind of
evaporate?
A: It just kind of evaporated. Then of course two or three days later,
I was concerned about her because she was sick. I took her back to the
nurse’s quarters and let her out. I called back the next day and they
said she wasn’t on duty, and I called the next day and they said she
wasn’t on duty. Then I went out there, for some reason, I don’t recall.
I went out there and I asked about the lieutenant, and they said she’d
been transferred out. They said, “She was transferred out yesterday.”
Well, that was the day after I saw her. They got her out the next day.
Q: Who told you she’d been transferred out?
A: I don’t know. Some nurses...
Q: It wasn’t anybody that you remember?
A: No.
Q: Did they tell you where she’d been shipped to?
A: They didn’t know. They said she had been transferred, and that’s all
they knew.
Q: But then you heard from her subsequently.
A: About three or four weeks later. I got a card addressed to Ballard
Funeral Home. It was from her, and inside it just said, just a short
note, she said we will correspond later to see what happened to each
other, something similar to those words. She said the only way you can
contact me is through this APO number, and there was an APO number. It
was a New York APO number.
Q: So she’d gone to Europe or some place.
A: Then right on the bottom she says, “I’m in London.” That was it. I
wrote a note, just a note, that said if you feel like it and you get
time, then I would love to know and we’ll correspond. Mine came back.
That was about three or four weeks later. Mine came back.
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