Mr. BELIN. Away from Patton or towards Patton?
Mrs. DAVIS. Towards Patton.
Mr. BELIN. When you first saw him, had he gotten up to your yard yet or
not?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes; he was cutting over across our yard.
Mr. BELIN. He was cutting across your walk that leads up to the front
door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. About how far from the main sidewalk on East 10th was he?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was about 3 feet.
Mr. BELIN. About 3 feet or so?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes; when I first saw him.
Mr. BELIN. Then he was cutting across your sidewalk about 3 feet away
from the main sidewalk?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Then did you see him--how long did you see him? Where did
you see him go?
Mrs. DAVIS. We saw him go around the corner of our house.
Mr. BELIN. How far did you see him go?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, when he disappeared around that corner, that is the
last we saw of him.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see him go through any bushes by your house or not?
Or didn't you see him?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You mean you didn't see him?
Mrs. DAVIS. We saw him when he cut across our yard.
Mr. BELIN. Where was he when you last saw him? He was--was he still in
your yard, or was he on the sidewalk on Patton Street?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was still in our yard.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. We already called the police.
Mr. BELIN. You called the police before you saw him?
Mrs. DAVIS. When Mrs. Markham was standing across the street hollering,
she told us to call the police, so Jeanette and I went in there, and
Jeanette called the police and we went back and he was cutting across
our yard, and we gave him time to go on because we were afraid he might
shoot us.
Mr. BELIN. Did you call the police before or after you saw him cut
across your yard?
Mrs. DAVIS. Before.
Mr. BELIN. In other words, to your--to the best of your recollection,
you heard the shots, you ran outside, you saw Mrs. Markham--did you see
anything else when you saw Mrs. Markham?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir; we just saw a police car sitting on the side of
the road.
Mr. BELIN. Where was the police car parked?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was parked between the hedge that marks the apartment
house where he lives in and the house next door.
Mr. BELIN. Was it on your side of East 10th or the other side of the
street?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was on our side, the same side that we lived on.
Mr. BELIN. Was it headed as you looked to the police car, towards your
right or towards your left?
Mrs. DAVIS. Right.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see any police officer in a police car when you
first saw him?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. When your sister went to call the police, did you go with
her, or did you stay by the front door?
Mrs. DAVIS. I went with her.
Mr. BELIN. What did you hear your sister do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, she called the police and told whoever answered the
phone that there had been a murder out in front of our house, to come
quick.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did she do?
Mrs. DAVIS. She hung up and then we went back to the front door and
told the two kids to stay indoors.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Then we went out in the front yard and right down to the
police car and that is when we saw the policeman lying on the street.
Mr. BELIN. Where was the policeman lying?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was lying just, well, he was half between the front end
of his car and, well, his head was lying toward the front end of it.
Mr. BELIN. Was he on the driver's side of the front or on the other
side?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was on the driver's side.
Mr. BELIN. All right, now, as I understand your testimony, after you
made the call, you went out to the front yard, is that it?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You then went out to see the policeman in the street?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. When you went out in the front yard, were you in the front
yard when the man was going by there?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir; he had already gone when we went outside.
Mr. BELIN. He had already gone when you went outside?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. I thought you said that when you went outside you went on
the sidewalk?
Mrs. DAVIS. See, all the people had already--see, he was already gone.
Mr. BELIN. Had he gone by at that time?
Mrs. DAVIS. By the time we got back from off the phone, he had already
gone. He had already disappeared behind the corner of our house.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see him going in front of your house before you
called on the phone?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes. When we heard the second shot, we ran to the front
door, and that is when we saw the boy cutting across the yard.
Mr. BELIN. Well, let me see if I understand your statement now. You
went to the front door after you heard the second shot?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do when you got to the front door? Did you open
the front door, or not?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir; we just looked through the front door.
Mr. BELIN. You looked through the front door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Was there a screen door on it or not?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was a screen door.
Mr. BELIN. Were you looking through the screen door, or was the screen
door partially open, if you remember.
Mrs. DAVIS. It was closed. We was looking through it.
Mr. BELIN. You were looking through the screen door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Were you in front of your sister-in-law, or was she in front
of you?
Mrs. DAVIS. She was in front of me.
Mr. BELIN. You were both looking through the screen door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. What did you see when you looked through the screen door?
Mrs. DAVIS. We saw a boy walking, cutting across our yard.
Mr. BELIN. Where was he when you first saw him?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was about 3 feet from the sidewalk. Not the one that
comes up to our front door, but the other sidewalk.
Mr. BELIN. He was about 3 feet from the front sidewalk on East 10th?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Had he come up to your sidewalk yet that comes up from East
10th to your front door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, he had already. He was about half on the concrete, I
think.
Mr. BELIN. He was half on that concrete?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you watch this man do?
Mrs. DAVIS. We watched him unload the shells out of his gun.
Mr. BELIN. What hand was he holding this gun in?
Mrs. DAVIS. In the right.
Mr. BELIN. He was holding the gun in his right hand, if you remember?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. What was he doing with his left hand?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was emptying the shells in his left hand.
Mr. BELIN. Was the gun broken open, so to speak? In other words. I
don't know if you have ever seen a capgun. When you want to load the
capgun, you have to kind of break it apart on a hinge.
Was the gun broken apart like that, or was the barrel straight?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was like the real gun, little one.
Mr. BELIN. What do you mean it was just like?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was just as best as I can remember, it was a little
pistol, and he was emptying the shells. Where the shell was coming out,
he was emptying the shells into his left hand.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see what he did with the shells when he emptied them
into his left hand?
Mrs. DAVIS. After we, well, he was dropping them on the ground because
we found two.
Mr. BELIN. You said that you found two? Did you see him drop them on
the ground or not?
Mrs. DAVIS. No; we didn't see him.
Mr. BELIN. You just saw him emptying shells in his hand?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. You didn't actually see what he did with them when he got
them in his hand, did you?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You are nodding your head no?
Mrs. DAVIS. No.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you see the man do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, he just cut across. He disappeared from behind the
corner of the house.
Mr. BELIN. Going toward what street?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, going toward Jefferson Street.
Mr. BELIN. He was headed on Patton in the direction toward Jefferson?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see him actually get to Patton Street?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes; he was already around the corner.
Mr. BELIN. You saw him go around the corner of your home?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do or see then?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, we just went out, because we had already called the
police, notified them, and we went out in the yard.
Mr. BELIN. You notified the police. Let me ask you this. Did you notify
the police before or after you saw the boy with the gun?
Mrs. DAVIS. Let's see, I think it was before.
Mr. BELIN. When you say before, what do you mean?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, before we saw the boy.
Mr. BELIN. Before you saw the boy you notified the police?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Well, let me try and reconstruct your actions then. You
heard the shots?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You ran to the door?
Mr. BELIN. What did you see when you got to the door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, we just saw, you know, the police car parked down
there and we wondered what was going on, so we heard Mrs. Markham
across the street calling.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, she told us to call the police, well, so went to the
house. We was already in the house, and we went to the phone and called
the police.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Then we went back to the front door.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. We saw the boy cutting across the street.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do or see?
Mrs. DAVIS. After he disappeared around the corner we ran out in the
front yard and down to see what had happened.
Mr. BELIN. Then is that when you saw the policeman?
Mrs. DAVIS. I saw the policeman lying on the street.
Mr. BELIN. All right. Did you see or do anything else? Did you see
anyone else that you know come up to the policeman?
Mrs. DAVIS. No sir; there was a lot of people around there.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember about what time of day this was?
Mrs. DAVIS. I wouldn't say for sure. But it was about 1:30, between
1:30 and 2.
Mr. BELIN. All right, after this, did police come out there?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes; they was already there.
Mr. BELIN. By the time you got out there?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, we just stood out there and watched. You know, tried
to see how it all happened. But we saw part of it.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. We stood out there until after the ambulance had come and
picked him up.
Mr. BELIN. All right, then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. And we stood out there and talked to this woman who told us
that President Kennedy was shot.
Mr. BELIN. About what?
Mrs. DAVIS. This woman had told us that President Kennedy was shot.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. When the police cars was circling all the blocks, about
four or five blocks to see if they could find the boy, and we stayed
out there all that time to see if they would locate him.
Mr. BELIN. All right, did you tell the police, that you had seen anyone
with a gun?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir; we told them that we saw a boy carrying a gun.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?