(Testimony of George William Fehrenbach)
Mr. Fehrenbach.
Anyway, an ordinary playing deck of cards, and this Jack Rubenstein was quite adept at playing cards, you could shuffle the deck and hand it to him and he could still give you almost any card he wanted.
There were other things they had done. He and this blonde girl worked together. He would take a piece of paper and write your names, different dates. when you were born, stuff like that, and fold it up in four or five squares and then I would give it to Jack, and he would hold it in his hands and [;d.sdfff[then this other girl would 'tell me exactly what I put on the paper.
How they done it I don't know. This was--
Mr. Griffin.
You indicated that Jack Rubenstein was in show business?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
What led you to believe that?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
Because he had told me---- now this was in, I believe on his second time that he was down there, there was some talk about Sam sending me to Chicago to work with a man there, a Mr. Levinson, I believe the man's name was, who was a diamond setter, and this was all that he done was diamond setting and Sam wanted me to go up and work with him for a few months to learn more about diamond setting.
Anyway, we were in the middle of the plans about the second time that this Jack Rubenstein came in there and when Jack came in, he acted very friendly and wanted to know how I was and this and that, and then we in the course of the conversation, why Sam said something about my coming to Chicago maybe and working for Mr. Levinson there, and Jack said, "Fine" he said, "when you come," he said, "I want you to come around to my place, and anything you want is on the house."
Mr. Griffin.
Indicating that he ran some sort of an entertainment place?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
Right. It was either a nightclub or tavern or something, I don't know. I never actually knew that.
Mr. Griffin.
I see.
Mr. Fehrenbach.
But I know Sam told me he said, "well now," he said "there you go; you would have to sit in the back room because you are not 21," but he said "they have got peep holes and you can still see the show."
I took it for granted it was a nightclub and apparently they had some kind of a show they put on there.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you have any--what do you remember most about this fellow whom you called Jack Rubenstein?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
The most I remember about him was he was a very nice looking fellow. He was very jolly, and he was what I would call a real character because he was always cutting up, laughing, always Jolly, very happy-go-lucky more or less, so to speak.
And as I made the comment the other day, I made it, I think on several occasions, I thought he was nuts because he didn't marry that blonde girl, because she was just about, they was two of a kind.
She was jolly, and happy-go-lucky, and I know, I was always under the impression tht she was very much in love with Jack because she just absolutely idolized him. She would never get too far way from his side and never take her eyes off him.
Mr. Griffin.
You refer to this man as Jack Rubenstein. How certain are you 'that his name was Jack?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
Everybody referred to him as Jack. But now I will say this; there is one thing that I don't understand and this is one reason why after this Jack Ruby shot Oswald, I didn't connect him because I had never heard him referred to as Jack Ruby.
Mr. Griffin.
How sure are you that this man you saw; his name was Rubinstein?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
Being introduced to him on two or three occasions and it was always as Jack Rubenstein.
Mr. Griffin.
Could it have been Rosenstein?
Mr. Fehrenbach.
No, it could not have been Rosenstein. The Rosenstein they talked about, like I said, I never met the man but I heard them talking about was in Cincinnati, Ohio, or Dayton, Ohio, one or the other and he was a very
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