Mr. SHASTEEN. Oh, I would say we cut his hair five or possibly six
times.
Mr. JENNER. Five or six times?
Mr. SHASTEEN. At least.
Mr. JENNER. Five and possibly six?
Mr. SHASTEEN. At least--being in the barber business and all and
studying people and all, they might go an extra week, but ordinarily,
you know, in cutting their hair, you can tell about how long they've
gone--in other words, if you knew how they cut it before, you can tell
just about how long they have gone for a haircut, and that's what I was
referring to a while ago, and it was about 2 weeks before that, and the
only times I can remember definitely out of the five times and possibly
six he was in my shop--I'd say that all the five or six times was in
succession either, it might have been--he may have missed some haircuts
and one or two in between somewhere in there.
Mr. JENNER. That is, you mean he might have had his hair cut somewhere
else?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I'm just trying to figure out this 22d and the 8th--did
this hair-cutting go back into the summer?
Mr. SHASTEEN. You know, that's--like I say, that's a saying--to point
back, and you know, just to say that that is the first time this guy
has come in here--I just can't pinpoint the first time. In other words,
it has been hard and I have tried to think, especially after I got that
call yesterday evening to come over here. I tried to run that back
through my mind and I wouldn't say when was the first time he was in
there and of course we have talked about it--me and the barbers, and
it seemed to me like there was a dead spot in there. Sometime--maybe a
month or 6 weeks that we might not have saw him, be the first time I
cut his hair, but the last three haircuts--it seemed to me like he was
pretty regular.
Mr. JENNER. What?
Mr. SHASTEEN. He was pretty regular--at the last three.
Mr. JENNER. So, if you had a dead spot, allowing for--let's say getting
a haircut somewhere else occasionally, or not coming in precisely at
the end of every 2-week period and having in mind that your present
recollection is at least five or six occasions, that would run it back
into the summertime?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes; it was. In other words, 2 or 3 or 4 months that
we had been seeing him, but I don't know just exactly to the date or
nothing.
Mr. JENNER. On how many of these occasions would you say--does your
recollection serve you--as to whether he was accompanied by this
14-year-old boy?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Twice--in other words--the only times I remember seeing
the boy was twice when he was with him. He was with him the night he
got the haircut, the last time he was in the shop, and he was with
him before that, the time before that this kid was with him. The two
last times he was in the shop, this boy was with him, and that's the
only time I ever saw the boy with him, but then about--in other words,
what I am saying, he came in on Friday, was--we'll say it is the 8th
there and then a week from this coming Monday the boy was in and got
a haircut, but Oswald wasn't with him. The boy came in by himself and
that tries to contradict what I said that I don't think he lived in
Irving, but why I said I don't think he lived in Irving, I have never
saw him before and I have been there 4 years and I have seen so many
kids grow up and I know their names, but I know their faces, but I
just have never saw him before, and that's one of those times that you
are sorry that you, like I said, let your temper get away. Since then
I have really wished--if I had done something, because this kid in my
estimation, even though he is warped in his thinking, and I think he is
warped, he could be helped if somebody could get ahold of him, but I
was the one that had an opportunity to try to and I let it slip.
Mr. JENNER. What do you charge for a haircut?
Mr. SHASTEEN. $1.25.
Mr. JENNER. And that is cash on the barrelhead, isn't it?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes, sir. I tell you that much--like somebody comes in
and wants to know if they can get a free haircut, and when somebody
goes to giving you something, you had better watch out--you had better
be careful.
Mr. JENNER. And you manage the till?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Well, no, sir; each one of us, we all have our same
drawers. I don't have a cash register, we have drawers, and that way,
if they give the wrong change back, it's not anything out of my pocket.