(c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com) EXHIBIT "L" DEPOSITION TAKEN BEFORE A FIELD EXAMINER OF THE VETERANS AMDINISTRATION DATE: 19 MARCH 1954 DEPOSED BY: A. W. HENDRICKS PERSON DEPOSED: MAE (HOLLEN) SCOTT Mae (HOLLEN) SCOTT: I am white, female, age 40, married, reside at 708 W. Main St., Paoli, Indiana, occupation, housewife. I am a sister to Woodrow W. HOLLEN. Q: When were you married? A: I married Wayne L. SCOTT on August 19, 1928, at Shoals, Ind. Q: Where were you living when your mother, Inice B. HOLLEN, married James DAVIS? A: I was living about 5 miles northwest of Paoli on a farm in the home of my husband's father. We continued to live there about six or seven years after we were married (1934) then we moved on the same farm but into a house of our own. My husband worked on the farm from the time of our marriage until about 1930 when he got a job at the basket factory, now burned down, and worked there part time just that summer. That fall Woodrow came to live at our house - he was 16 then - and he and Wayne got a job picking apples at the Hall Orchard, now out of business, south of Paoli. Q: when the apple season was over, where did Woodrow go? A: He stayed with us. Q: Did he have his own room with you? A: Yes. Q: Did he pay you board? A: No, if he wanted anything he brought it in. In the line of food, I mean. Q: How long did he stay that winter? A: I don't know where he went - whether to Clyde, Harrison or Ad APPLE's or he might have gone to his uncle Sam HOLLAND's - but he stayed at our place until spring. Q: Didn't he ever go home to his mother's? A: Not to stay. He would go with us on Sundays and come back as we came. Q: How many rooms did they have in the Scott home? A: We lived upstairs; they lived downstairs. The upstairs had 2 big rooms we used. The big room we divided by putting a living room at one end and a kitchen at the other. We had another room we used as a bedroom. Q: Where in this arrangement did Woodrow sleep? A: In that front room , we had a bed. Wayne and I slept in that and Woodrow slept in the bedroom. Our baby slept with us in our bed. Q: After Woodrow left that next spring, how long was it before he came back to live with you? A: He didn't come back to live with us after that one winter upstairs, in that particular house. The next time he came back to live with us was when he was 22 years old. It was in the winter. He and Wayne just worked around the farm, cutting wood. Q: When did he leave? A: I can't think when it was. I believe he went to work for Uncle Sam again. Q: Did he ever come back to your house? A: Yes he was living with us when he signed up for the Army. Q: Whose address did he give on enlistment? A: I believe he gave my mother's address. Q: Was he ever away working in Illinois? A: Yes, he was there about 4 years. It seems to me his address was in Sheldon, Illinois. Q: Didn't he go over with Wesley GOFORTH? A: Yes. Q: Didn't they get into an auto wreck and get scared of getting into trouble and come right back to Indiana? A: Yes. But he later went back again. Q: Did you ever go home to live with your mother during one winter when DAVIS was on WPA? A: We spent a while there one fall, then moved back to Wayne's dad's. My daughter was born in July, 1933, and she was 4 or 5 months old when we first moved in with them. That would be in the fall of 1933. We helped him get in his beans and dig his sweet potatoes. He wasn't on WPA then. Q: Where was Woodrow during this two months? A: I don't remember. Q: Did DAVIS support the other children who were home, from the time of his marriage, until they were married and gone? A: I guess he supported them when they weren't working and going to school. Q: Do you remember DAVIS cutting railroad ties in the woods and selling them? A: I remember him cutting them on Mom's place, there. Q: Some of the neighbors have stated that Woodrow and Clovie used to come over to their hourses on winter evenings and play Rook with their children when Woodrow was young. What do you know about this? A: I am not saying they didn't and I'm not saying they did. Q: It has been alleged by other witnesses that Woodrow spent over 1/2 of his time at home there between 1929 and 1940. Do you know if this is true? A: No, that is not true. Q: How much time did he spend there during those years, altogether? A: I don't believe he was there a third of the time. Q: How did he and Jim DAVIS get along? A: They did not get along. Q: Did they have conflicts when they were together? A: They differed on little things. He did things Woodie didn't like. Q: Isn't it a fact that Woodrow and DAVIS worked on jobs for farmers together? A: I don't know. Q: I have no further questions. Do you have anything to add? A: I wish to change my answer to your question, "Was he ever working in Illinois?" to simply "YES" deleting the rest of the answer. I am mixed up in my dates on that. I want to amend my answer that we lived in Scott home (see page one) six or seven years until 1934, to say that we lived there continuously with the exception of a short time when we lived with Mary A. HOLLAND, my grandmother, and the short time we visited with my mother. I certify that I have read the foregoing and my statements are true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. /signature of Mrs. Mae SCOTT/ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19 day of March 1954; and I hereby certify that the foregoing statement was read by the affiant before signing. /signature of A. W. Hendricks/ Field Examiner (c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com)