Free Magnolia Gods (River Sunday Romance Mysteries Book 2) by Thomas Hollyday Page A

rebuttals I could muster.
    “It’s all here, what she said.” Drexel threw the folder on the floor and smiled,” The railroad ticket to New York City was a problem. You’ll read about it in this interrogation. The Navy had found the ticket in the house.”
     
    Question: “Tell us about your husband. How did he vote in the last Presidential election?”
    Answer: “I said before he was for Roosevelt because the man helped folks get jobs. That was real important down where we lived on the Eastern Shore. Folks needed those jobs.”
    Question: “Did your husband like President Truman?”
    Answer: “He didn't like him blowing up all those Japanese. He said that he didn't think Roosevelt would have dropped those bombs.”
    Question: “What did he do about his concern about the atomic bombs?”
    Answer: “He never was much on writing letters to Congress. He did not like groups. He liked to do things on his own.”
    Question: “What, for example?”
    Answer: “Well, I know he wanted to send money to help the burned Japanese in those cities that were hit by the atomic bombs.”
    Question: “Did he send money?”
    Answer: “He could not find a way as far as I know. Last I remember he was going to contact the United Nations. I don't know whether he did contact them or not. He just stopped talking about it.”
    Question: “Did he ever mention the Communist Party?”
    Answer: “Not much. He said they were as guilty of crime against humanity as the Nazis.”
    Question: “Why did he say that?”
    Answer: “He said they both liked to fight wars. They loved war. He said that made them both guilty as hell of killing people.”
    Question: “In your house, we found a train ticket to New York City. Who was going to use the ticket?”
    Answer: “I don't know about that. The Captain had his own things. I didn't touch them.”
    Question: “How do you explain that your fingerprints and the fingerprints of your husband were on the ticket?”
    Answer: “I don't know. I must have moved it to dust his desk.”
    Question: “What do you think happened to your husband?”
    Answer: “The newspapers say he flew his airplane towards a Soviet battleship in the Atlantic Ocean.”
    Question: “What is your opinion about that?”
    Answer: “I don't think he would give his secret work to the Soviets. I think he crashed in the ocean. He was out on a test flight and he crashed.”
    Question: “Why did the laboratory explode?”
    Answer: “Laboratories explode all the time. They test stuff and sometimes it blows up.”
    Question: “Your husband was flying a seaplane. Don’t you think he should have landed rather than crashed in the ocean?”
    Answer: “Well, maybe it crashed in a storm.”
    Question: “The weather was calm.”
    Answer: “I don't know. You ask me what I think and I tell you. That's all I can do.”
     
    Drexel spoke up when he saw that Mike had finished reading.
    “The Navy was hot on that ticket,” the lawyer said. “They thought they had her. Problem was they could not prove that ticket had anything to do with Lawson’s plot. The fact that he might have flown over the farm did not mean anything either. I made the point that the two of them were married and that any signals might have been romantic in nature. The Navy could not prove her enough of an accomplice to go to jail.
     “I argued for the case to be closed, that is, I argued through the Navy lawyer that the court appointed her. I said to the officials, ‘You want to keep digging, then all right, but you will find nothing. So maybe we are thankful that we have a vigilant group of Navy investigators and they never quit, I said, but in this case it seems a waste of the taxpayers’ money.’
    “The judges decided to let her go home.”
    He handed over another paper, saying, “Here are the recommendations.”
     
    “Philadelphia Naval Factory Explosion and Theft of Seaplane on 4 July 1945: Court of Inquiry: Recommendations.
    1. That concerning the