Mr. WHALEY. I know, sir, but I don't think you can understand what I
had to put up with that afternoon.
Mr. BELIN. You mean with the press?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir; with everything.
Mr. BELIN. Well, I do understand, sir, and I appreciate that you were
under a great deal of pressure at that time, and I want to try and
get at the actual facts, and that is why we asked you to come back to
testify again, because we wanted to know basically whether or not the
man that you drove in the cab got off in the 500 block or the 700 block.
Mr. WHALEY. The man I drove in the cab got off where I told you he got
off, this morning.
I picked him up, and I showed you where I picked him up, and the trip
runs 95 cents on the meter. He gave me a dollar and got off and he
never spoke a word to me, except he wanted to go to 500 North Beckley.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember a woman coming up to the cab?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir; I remember that.
Mr. BELIN. What happened then?
Mr. WHALEY. The lady, I don't remember whether she was very old, but
she was middle-aged. She bent down and stuck in and said, "Can I have
this cab?" And he cracked the door open like he was going to get out. I
thought he was going to let her have it.
I told her there would be another one, and she said, "Would you please
call me one."
Mr. BELIN. Did he say anything to the woman, that you can remember?
Mr. WHALEY. When she wanted to know if she could have the cab, I don't
know, but I got a faint hunch he did tell her she could have this one,
or something like that. What it was, I was watching my left-hand side.
I wanted to pull out when the light changed.