Mr. BALL. Which elevator did you get on?
Mr. MOONEY. It was the one nearest to the staircase, on the northwest
corner of the building.
Mr. BALL. There are two elevators there?
Mr. MOONEY. I found that out later. I didn't know it at that time.
Mr. BALL. You took the west one, or the east one?
Mr. MOONEY. I would say it was the west elevator, the one nearest to
the staircase.
Mr. BALL. Did it work with a push button?
Mr. MOONEY. It was a push button affair the best I can remember. I
got hold of the controls and it worked. We started up and got to the
second. I was going to let them off and go on up. And when we got
there, the power undoubtedly cut off, because we had no more power
on the elevator. So I looked around their office there, just a short
second or two, and then I went up the staircase myself. And I met some
other officers coming down, plainclothes, and I believe they were
deputy sheriffs. They were coming down the staircase. But I kept going
up. And how come I get off the sixth floor, I don't know yet. But,
anyway, I stopped on six, and didn't even know what floor I was on.
Mr. BALL. You were alone?
Mr. MOONEY. I was alone at that time.
Mr. BALL. Was there any reason for you to go to the sixth floor?
Mr. MOONEY. No, sir. That is what I say. I don't know why. I just
stopped on that particular floor. I thought I was pretty close to the
top.
Mr. BALL. Were there any other officers on the floor?
Mr. MOONEY. I didn't see any at that time. I assume there had
been other officers up there. But I didn't see them. And I begin
criss-crossing it, round and round, through boxes, looking at open
windows--some of them were open over on the south side.
And I believe they had started laying some flooring up there.
I was checking the fire escapes. And criss-crossing back and forth. And
then I decided--I saw there was another floor. And I said I would go
up. So I went on up to the seventh floor. I approached Officers Webster
and Vickery. They were up there--in this little old stairway there that
leads up into the attic. So we climbed up in there and looked around
right quick. We didn't climb all the way into the attic, almost into
it. We said this is too dark, we have got to have floodlights, because
we can't see. And so somebody made a statement that they believed
floodlights was on the way. And I later found out that probably
Officers Boone and Walters had gone after lights. I heard that.
And so we looked around up there for a short time. And then I says I am
going back down on six.
At that time, some news reporter, or press, I don't know who he was--he
was coming up with a camera. Of course he wasn't taking any pictures.
He was just looking, too, I assume. So I went back down ahead of
Officers Vickery and Webster. They come in behind me down to the sixth
floor.
I went straight across to the southeast corner of the building, and
I saw all these high boxes. Of course they were stacked all the
way around over there. And I squeezed between two. And the minute
I squeezed between these two stacks of boxes, I had to turn myself
sideways to get in there--that is when I saw the expended shells and
the boxes that were stacked up looked to be a rest for the weapon. And,
also, there was a slight crease in the top box. Whether the recoil made
the crease or it was placed there before the shots were fired, I don't
know. But, anyway, there was a very slight crease in the box, where the
rifle could have lain--at the same angle that the shots were fired from.
So, at that time, I didn't lay my hands on anything, because I wanted
to save every evidence we could for fingerprints. So I leaned out the
window, the same window from which the shots were fired, looked down,
and I saw Sheriff Bill Decker and Captain Will Fritz standing right on
the ground.
Well, so I hollered, or signaled--I hollered, I more or less hollered.
I whistled a time or two before I got anybody to see me. And yet they
was all looking that way, too--except the sheriff, they wasn't looking
up.
And I told him to get the crime lab officers en route, that I had the
location spotted.
So I stood guard to see that no one disturbed anything until Captain
Will Fritz approached with his group of officers, city officers. At
that time, of course, when I hollered, of course Officers Vickery
and Webster, they came across and later on several other deputies--I
believe Officers McCurley, A. D. McCurley, I believe he came over.
Where he came from--they was all en route up there, I assume.
Mr. BALL. I show you three pictures, Officer; for your convenience I
will give you the pictures.