Mr. BROWN. Wait a minute, I am sorry. It was Mrs. Virginia Davis, and
Mrs. Barbara Davis.
Mr. BELIN. Were you there when they made their identification?
Mr. BROWN. Yes; I was. This was 7:45 p.m., November 22.
Mr. BELIN. Who did they pick?
Mr. BROWN. They picked Lee Harvey Oswald again, which was No. 2, in a
four-man lineup.
Mr. BELIN. Was Lee Harvey Oswald in the four-man lineup?
Mr. BROWN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. They identified him as the man?
Mr. BROWN. Definitely, before they got on the stage, before they got
them under the numbers, too.
Mr. BELIN. They saw him right away, you mean?
Mr. BROWN. Yes; they definitely picked him instantly.
Mr. BELIN. Instantly, you have just snapped your hands there?
Mr. BROWN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else in connection with that identification?
Mr. BROWN. That is the only two that I was active insofar as the
showups and identification of Lee Harvey Oswald by any of the witnesses
on either Officer Tippit or the President's assassination.
Mr. BELIN. All right, is there anything else you had to do with the
murder of Officer Tippit's investigation or the investigation of the
assassination that you haven't related to us thus far today?
Mr. BROWN. Yes. In regard to the Officer Tippit murder, the same date,
November 22, 1963, Lt. T. P. Wells received a telephone call from a
Mrs. Barbara Davis of 400 East 10th stating that her sister-in-law
of the same address, her name as Mrs. Virginia Davis, had found an
additional empty .38 caliber shell cartridge in her front yard.
Lieutenant Wells ordered my partner, C. N. Dhority, and I, to go to the
Davis residence where Mrs. Barbara Davis handed my partner this spent
hull at approximately 7 p.m., that evening. That was brought to the
homicide and robbery bureau by myself and Detective Dhority.
Mr. BELIN. Was it brought to that bureau at the time you brought the
two women?
Mr. BROWN. At the same time the Davis women were brought to the office
for affidavits and identification.
Mr. BELIN. Who did you turn that cartridge shell over to?
Mr. BROWN. That went to the crime lab, Dallas Crime Lab.
Mr. BELIN. Did you, yourself, turn it over?
Mr. BROWN. No; Detective Dhority handled that.
Mr. BELIN. Detective Dhority handled that?
Mr. BROWN. We were keeping this evidence in a chain there. Mrs. Barbara
Jeanette Davis handed him the spent cartridge. He gave it to the crime
lab himself, which was initialled by both of us.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else, sir?
Mr. BROWN. None in regard to any evidence or identification of any
further witnesses.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else in connection with either the assassination or
the Tippit murder?
Mr. BROWN. None that I recall at this time, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Sir, you have an opportunity to either read the deposition
when it is transcribed and sign it, or else waive the reading and have
our court reporter send it directly to Washington. You can take your
choice.
Mr. BROWN. Well, I have no reason to read it for any reason at all.
Mr. BELIN. Do you want to waive signing it then?
Mr. BROWN. That would be fine. Waive signing, and you can send it right
out. To the best of my knowledge, that is everything that happened.
Mr. BELIN. Well, we certainly appreciate all of your cooperation and
the cooperation of the Dallas Police Department.