When next did you see them, after this initial event?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That I don't remember. I don't remember. But I do know that we saw Marina very soon afterward, because either my wife went to get her or my daughter went to get her--I don't remember that any more---to take her to the hospital. Or maybe George Bouhe brought her to our house so that my wife, who was free at the time, could take her to the dental clinic. I think that was the next time that we saw Marina. Maybe a few days later.

Mr. Jenner.

In any event, it was before Marina went to live with the Mellers?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And it was before Marina went to live with the Taylors?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
She never lived with the Taylors. I think she spent I night with them, and that is all. She lived, I think--I think both of them lived somewhere in neighborhood. I think she spent I night with my daughter, when she happened to be in Dallas for this medical care. And since they are about the age of my daughter--she is a little bit older, but about the same age I don't remember how it happened, but either I or my wife introduced Marina to my daughter, and also Lee. This is very vague in my mind, what happened there.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, your recollection is that within a few days George Bouhe brought Marina to your home?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think so.

Mr. Jenner.

For the purpose of having your wife take Marina to get some dental care?

Mr. De.

MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

And where was she taken?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She was taken to the Baylor Dental Clinic.

Mr. Jenner.

That is located where?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It is right in the center of Dallas, near the Slaughter Hospital--what a name for a hospital. It is the name of the man who founded it.
Well, the dental clinic is right there next door. They give you dental care gratis, or almost for nothing.
George Bouhe was giving her money, by the way.

Mr. Jenner.

He was giving her money?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I mean small amounts of money, you know, either for injections or something like that--because she didn't have anything.

Mr. Jenner.

She was destitute, was she?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Completely destitute--because Lee was at the time losing his job. I don't recall when he told me that---maybe already at the first meeting. He told me that he was about to lose his job. He was working somewhere in Fort Worth as a manual laborer, some ironworker.

Mr. Jenner.

Leslie Welding Co.?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I don't know the name of it. This company was going bankrupt, or that he was going to lose his job. At least that was his version. Maybe he was fired.

Mr. Jenner.

That was his version. That wasn't the fact.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It was a fact?

Mr. Jenner.

It was not. Your wife also took the baby for some medical care?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Now, this I am not so sure. She told Marina where to go, and told her, "You have to give the baby such and such injections." And this I remember well--that she didn't do it. She didn't go to that children's clinic, because of pure negligence. She is that type of a girl--very negligent, poor mother, very poor mother. Loved the child, but a poor mother that doesn't pay much attention. And what amazed us, you know, that she, having been a pharmacist in Russia, did not know anything about the good care of the children, nothing.

Mr. Jenner.

How did you find out she had been a pharmacist in Russia?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, that eventually came--the second time or the third time that we met her--she told us the story of her life.

Mr. Jenner.

Do you have a recollection as to what she told you?

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