Mr. EVANS. I just, you know, I spoke to him, and I--he was coming up
the same floor I was going up and I never paid much--in fact, I----
Mr. HUBERT. At sometime you must have mentioned to somebody that you
thought you had seen this man on that Sunday, and that he was Jack
Ruby. Do you recall how that came about?
Mr. EVANS. Well, one of these buddies there, he told some newspaperman
a bunch--that he told them all about that when I wasn’t even there at
the time.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean at the time that he told the story?
Mr. EVANS. He told them all about it.
Mr. HUBERT. We are talking about now, Malcom Slaughter, aren’t we?
Mr. EVANS. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. You had told Slaughter that you thought that man you had
seen was Ruby?
Mr. EVANS. After we ate and I went back to the 11 o’clock mass, and it
was close to 12 o’clock when I got back to the apartment.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. EVANS. And just as soon as I opened the door these guys told me
Oswald had been shot.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. EVANS. And so, then, it wasn’t long before 1 o’clock Life Magazine,
and--man, they was out there taking picture, and newspapers, and they
were taking pictures of the apartment and interviewing different people
there.
Mr. HUBERT. So, it was at that time that you told Mr. Slaughter that
you thought you had seen Ruby that morning?
Mr. EVANS. Yes; I told him what happened there and the guy had went in
that apartment there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you know his roommate, I think you mentioned something
about a roommate?
Mr. EVANS. I understand the papers said there were two of them staying
there.
Mr. HUBERT. But you don’t know of your own knowledge?
Mr. EVANS. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Had you ever seen the man who was supposed to be his
roommate?
Mr. EVANS. In fact, we was not in there, and sleeping in the daytime
mostly when we was there, so I really don’t know anyone there.
Mr. HUBERT. Anyhow, this man that you saw, who you think might have
been Ruby, you never had seen him before nor have you seen him after?
Mr. EVANS. No.
Mr. HUBERT. And your testimony is that this document identified as
Exhibit 5122, looks like him?
Mr. EVANS. Yes.