Mr. STERN. You wanted to ask him other questions?
Mr. SORRELS. Oh, yes.
Mr. STERN. And what happened then?
Mr. SORRELS. He was taken by the officers, as I recall it, and was
taken out of that area and I suppose put back in jail.
Mr. STERN. Did you then talk to Captain Fritz?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes. As I recall it, I asked Captain Fritz whether or not
he had gotten anything out of him or not, and Captain Fritz said that
he hadn't been able--that he had not made any admissions or anything
like that at that time, and that he was going to talk to him again.
That is all I recall that transpired at that time.
Of course I contacted the Chief's office, when I got that information
as to who he was, and gave that information to them.
Mr. STERN. This is Chief Rowley?
Mr. SORRELS. I think I talked to Deputy Chief Paterni.
Mr. STERN. Of the Secret Service here in Washington?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes, sir.
Mr. STERN. Did anything else transpire between that time and the Friday
night showup?
Mr. SORRELS. I did not talk to Oswald again, and I was around there.
When I contacted Washington, I was informed that Inspector Kelley
was being directed to be there, and he would be there later on that
evening, that they had caught him out on the road, and he would come
there to help out.
I also got information to Captain Fritz that I had this witness,
Brennan, that I had talked to, and that I would like very much for him
to get a chance to see Oswald in a lineup. And Captain Fritz said that
would be fine.
So I instructed Special Agent Patterson, I believe it was, after I had
located Brennan--had quite a difficult time to locate him, because he
wasn't at home. And they finally prevailed upon his wife to try to help
me locate him, and she, as I recall it, said that she would see if she
could locate him by phone. I called her, I believe, the second time and
finally got a phone number and called him and told him we would like
for him to come down and arrange for him to meet one of our agents to
pick him up at the place there. And when they came down there with him,
I got ahold of Captain Fritz and told him that the witness was there,
Mr. Brennan.
He said, "I wish he would have been here a little sooner, we just got
through with a lineup. But we will get another fixed up."
So I took Mr. Brennan, and we went to the assembly room, which is also
where they have the lineup, and Mr. Brennan, upon arrival at the police
station, said, "I don't know if I can do you any good or not, because
I have seen the man that they have under arrest on television," and he
said, "I just don't know whether I can identify him positively or not"
because he said that the man on television was a bit disheveled and his
shirt was open or something like that, and he said "The man I saw was
not in that condition."
So when we got to the assembly room, Mr. Brennan said he would like to
get quite a ways back, because he would like to get as close to the
distance away from where he saw this man at the time that the shooting
took place as he could.
And I said, "Well, we will get you clear on to the back and then we can
move up forward."
They did bring Oswald in in a lineup.
He looked very carefully, and then we moved him up closer and so forth,
and he said, "I cannot positively say."