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    "ocrText": "-3-\n-\nafter discussing things with my mother, on her advice I caught\nthe bus and went to his apartment on Moss Street where I saw\nhim laying on the bed. After being unable to arouse him,\nI left and got into the automobile, having the key to the car,\na 1950 Chevrolet which having instructions from him to use the\ncar when needed, I drove to the nearest public phone to call\nmy mother. The phone was located on Dumaine and Carrollton.\nMy mother upon learning what I had seen - him lying on the\nbed, advised me not to attempt to enter, being a graduate\ntrained nurse of Charity Hospital, and from the description\nI had given her, she told me he might be dead and in the event\nhe was, for my own protection to call his good friends,\nBecky and bill Nitchski. I did but they were not home. She\nhad told us a few days earlier that their boys were flying in\nfrom Nevada and they were going to get them at the airport so\nI decided to go to the airport in case they came in the meantime.\nSince they were not there I went to their house thinking that\nthey would be on the way and would arrive when I did. Upon\nfinding them not home, I wrote a note telling them that I\nfeared something serious had happened to Guy and please come\nimmediately that I would be waiting for them at his apartment.\nOn my return I stopped again at the same phone thinking that\nby chance they may have arrived at home. The phone was\nringing\nas they were entering the house and while one was answering\nthe phone, the other was reading the note I left. They said\nthey would come immediately. I drove back to Guy's apartment\nand waited. We tried to arouse him and were unable to do so.\nBill Nitchski then decided to use a crowbar from his car\nand break open the door. We went in and I wanted to turn him\nover and see if we could revive him, and I was about to do\nso when bill said, \"Don't touch him, he is dead. Unbeknown\nto me he had felt his feet and he recognized death on the touch.\nHe was laying on the bed on his stomach with only a pair of\nshorts on. His head was on a pillow on the left cheek and in\nhis right hand he was clutching a bath towel. It looked like\nhe was sleeping and I didn't think he was dead. Then\nimmediately Mr. Nitchski phoned the police and reported that\nwe had found him dead in his apartment on Moss Street. We\nwere hardly in when we were out because Bill said it was\nmost important not to disturb anything especially his body\nin the event that foul play had taken place and there may have\nbeen a knife or bullet found. We waited on the outside until\nthe police came within minutes. I never went back in the\napartment and I didn't see Bill go back in, I know Becky didn't.\nQuestion by Det. Loisel: At a later date you knew Mrs.\nBanister sold -\nAnswer: Mr. Banister had often told me in the event anything\nhappened to him to go immediately to the office and take with\nme the Code or key to the Index file and also to get my own\npersonal belongings. As soon as I did this, I was to leave\nas soon as I was able. Naturally, being upset (we were to have\nbeen married upon his final divorce) I may have taken longer than\nI should have because I was unable to see as clearly\nbecause I had so many tears in my eyes.\nLater I learned the office was padlocked against me\ndue to the fact that his wife, Mary Banister, resented me\nbecause I was treasurer of the company and she didn't want\n(me to enter the office for fear I would take the files."
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