(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)
Mrs. Paine.
From here to there, about 6 feet.
Mr. Jenner.
Proceed.
Mrs. Paine.
The officers then said they would like me and Marina to go down to the police station, and I said well, I would seek to try to get a baby-sitter to come to stay with the children so that we might accompany them. About this time, we then left the garage as I recall, because then Michael Paine arrived at the front door. I was in the living room when he came. And I said "Did you know to come" and he said that he had heard Oswald's name mentioned on the radio, and had come over directly, for which I may say I was very glad.
Mr. Jenner.
How far away from your home where did he live?
Mrs. Paine.
It would take about a half hour drive he was working--from where he was working to come, 20 minutes perhaps.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you have the address at the tip of your tongue?
Mrs. Paine.
Where he works; no. I don't know the address. I know how to get to it.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you know where he lived?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
What was the address?
Mrs. Paine.
He lived at the Villa Fontaine Apartments, apartment 217, 2377 Dalworth.
Mr. Jenner.
D-A-L-W-O-R-T-H?
Mrs. Paine.
D-A-L-W-O-R-T-H, in Grand Prairie, Tex.
Mr. Jenner.
Where is Grand Prairie, Tex.
Mrs. Paine.
Grand Prairie is suburban to Dallas, between Dallas and Fort Worth, nearer to Dallas, and it was a location very near to where he worked.
Mr. Jenner.
What distance in miles from your home?
Mrs. Paine.
You measure distance in minutes in Texas; driving time. I don't now; 20 minutes to where he lived.
Mr. Jenner.
All right, proceed.
Mrs. Paine.
The police officers then asked if Michael would also accompany us to the police station and he said he would. I changed clothes to a suit from slacks, and went to the house of my babysitter. She has no telephone. I need to walk to her.
Mr. Jenner.
Where was Marina in the meantime?
Mrs. Paine.
Marina remained in the house with the children. Lynn by this time had awakened as I recall. Christopher was still sleeping and I think June was also. And I said I would walk over to my neighbors to ask if--there was something that intervened I just remembered. I first went and asked my immediate neighbor, Mrs. Roberts, if she could keep the children for a short time in the afternoon, but she was just on her way to go somewhere. She couldn't. So then I went to the home of the person I normally have for a baby- sitter. It was now after school or this babysitter would not have been there, which brings us to 3:30 perhaps. And I asked the mother if the young girl, teenage girl, could come and stay at the house. I was accompanied to the house by one of the officers. As we left the house I said "Oh, you don't have to go with me." Oh, he said, he'd be glad to. And then it occurred to me he had been assigned to go with me, and I said "come along." It was the first I have ever experienced being in the company of people who suspected me of anything, and of course that is their business.
We did arrange then for the girls to come back, one or two, I forget whether it was two of the daughters or one that came then to my house to stay with the children. As I came back, I noticed the officers carrying a number of things from the house, and I looked into the back of one of the cars. It was across the street from my house, and saw he had three cases of 78 records of mine, and I said, "You don't need those and I want to use them on Thanksgiving weekend. I have promised to lead a folk dance conference on the weekend. I will need those records which are all folk dance records and I doubt that you might get them back at that time."
And I said, "that is a 16 mm projector. You don't want that. It is mine."
And he took me by the arm and he said, "We'd better get down to the station. We have wasted too much time as it is." And I said, "I want a list of what you are taking, please." Or perhaps that was before. As much answer
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