Mr. MONTGOMERY. Uh-huh. Brought him right in here. Laid him down on the
floor just inside the door there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What was he doing at that point? Still putting up a
struggle or----
Mr. MONTGOMERY. We laid him down on the floor there. He hollered and
said, “You all know me. I’m Jack Ruby.”
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know how he happened to yell that?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Do I know that?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; did you hear anybody holler anything to him at that
time?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. I don’t remember hearing anything. Hollered--says, “You
all know me. I’m Jack Ruby.” And then we let him down there and was
looking for the pistol.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Uh-huh.
Mr. MONTGOMERY. I said--I said, “Where is the pistol at?” And
Officer--Detective Graves walked up to where I was and said, “I have
got the pistol right here.” And pulled it out of his pocket and showed
it to me.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you search him?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. I did not.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, was he searched while he was in there?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Well, everybody’s hands were going all over him; so, I
am sure they were searching.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were his pockets turned out?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; they didn’t actually turn them wrong side out; no,
because everything would have fell out.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you do at that point?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Well, after Graves showed us where the pistol was,
of course, we knew that he didn’t have it on him then. Then Chief
Batchelor walked by here. Chief Batchelor is our assistant chief of
police, and I asked if he wanted Ruby--to get Ruby in the jail, and he
said, “Yes.”
We then picked up Ruby and came around the corner here to the jail
office. I mean the jail elevator there, and they took him upstairs
to the jail, and I returned over to where Captain Fritz and Graves,
Leavelle were with Oswald.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Who was “they” that took him upstairs?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Well, “Blackie” Harrison and Archer, McMillon.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was Clardy with them?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Clardy was down there if he wasn’t with them--I just
don’t know. I know there was four or five of them there that went up,
Cutchshaw, Lowery.