WITNESS #7

Hell, I might a told him about it for all I know. Heard him blabbin on bout a lady named DeWitt. Said it in his sleep. I was in there with him. Yeh jest hear things is all. Jailhouse in a county like that ain’t big. Hear all kind a things. Anyways, says it in his sleep one night. I said to him the next day, said, Say partner, I know who DeWitt is. Lila DeWitt. I said, Who she to you? Could tell by the look on his face it was his mama. Anyways, told him my brother was neighbors with her down in Cedar Rapids. Except now she wasn’t a DeWitt. She was a Hobson. Told him, Partner I got bad news. So what I tell him is his mama married and had two other kids. Told him, she’s dead. Moren fifteen years back. Went on to say they made a big stink bout it in the papers. Real tragedy. Her car went off a bridge, two babies in the back seat. That last part, the babies part, that seemed to upset him. Don’t know if he was cryin or snarlin.