The question mentioned above was asked by Roger, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old thin and weak boy to Mrs Luella Bates Washington Jones, a large woman. Roger was caught red-handed by Mrs Jones while trying to snatch her purse. Struggling to get freed from Mrs Jones’ clasp, he began sweating. Mrs Jones stopped, jerked him around, put a half- nelson about his neck and continued to pull him along forcefully up the street. When she reached her house, she dragged him inside, down a hall and into a large kitchenette-furnished room at the rear end of the house. Holding him by the neck, Mrs Jones asked him his name. Getting his reply, she turned him loose and told him to go to the sink to wash his face. Looking at the door twice and at the lady once, Roger went to the sink. Then handing him a clean towel, she told him to allow the water run until it got warm. At this caring attitude of the lady, the scared boy gathered courage to ask her the above question, Mrs Jones replied, saying that she would take him nowhere with such an untidy face. She also mentioned to him that the time when he attempted to snatch her pocketbook, she was trying to get home to prepare something to eat. Then the concerned lady enquired if Roger had supper and the boy answered saying that there was nobody at his house.