Mrs. NICHOLS. Well, he had mentioned that she had been in an institution; that she had a mental breakdown. Mr. GRIFFIN. What was Jack’s attitude about that? Mrs. NICHOLS. He didn’t say much about it. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he have any hostility toward her on account of it? Mrs. NICHOLS. No; he didn’t. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack ever tell you how he happened to change his name from Rubenstein to Ruby? Mrs. NICHOLS. No. He had already changed his name when I first knew him, and he never did tell me how he happened to do it. Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know that Jack had been associated with his brother Earl and his brother Sam in a business in Chicago? Mrs. NICHOLS. He told me that he had. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he ever tell you how he happened to leave that business and come to Dallas? Mrs. NICHOLS. He told me that he came down here because his sister had a nightclub here and she was having difficulty because business was not going. He came down here to see if he couldn’t help her with the nightclub business. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he ever indicate anything about his relationship with Sam and Earl in Earl Products? Mrs. NICHOLS. He was a partner, I understood, in that. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he ever indicate that he was dissatisfied in any way with that? Mrs. NICHOLS. No; he didn’t. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he talk to you about how close he was or friendly he was with his brothers? Mrs. NICHOLS. Well, I got the impression that he was close to his brothers, his whole family. He seemed to be close to the whole family. Mr. GRIFFIN. What gave you that impression? Mrs. NICHOLS. Well, he was very upset when his brothers Earl and Sam broke up their partnership, and he went up there to try to help settle their differences, and he just—I always got the impression that he was close to his family. Mr. GRIFFIN. Now you mentioned a man by the name of Ned Weisbrod. Mrs. NICHOLS. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. As a person whom you thought was friendly with Jack, close to him in one way or another. When did you first meet Mr. Weisbrod? Mrs. NICHOLS. I believe that I met him soon after I met Jack. I would say probably in 1950. Mr. GRIFFIN. How long did they continue, Weisbrod, to be friendly with Jack? Mrs. NICHOLS. I had not seen him in—when I first knew Jack, he had the Silver Spur, and I used to see Ned in there. And after he took over the Vegas, I used to see him out there until about—I think it was about the last 2 or 3 years I had not seen Ned in there. And the same thing with this Sam; that they used to be together a lot. Mr. GRIFFIN. Sam Lassen? Mrs. NICHOLS. Yes. I had not seen either one of them in the Vegas Club for, I would say, 2 years anyway before 1959, when we stopped going together. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack ever indicate why they stopped coming around? Mrs. NICHOLS. No. Mr. GRIFFIN. Was there any sort of quarrel that Jack had with them? Mrs. NICHOLS. Not that I know of. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack seem to have any business relationship with Weisbrod and Lassen?