Mr. Rose.

Yes, sir; it was sort of rolled up, but it was flattened out from laying down and tied near the middle, I would say, with a cord and so I went on and picked the blanket up, but it was empty--it didn't have the rifle in it.

Mr. Ball.

You brought that in?

Mr. Rose.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Ball.

What else did you see?

Mr. Rose.

I didn't make very much of a search of the garage at that time. I came back into the house and talked with Marina some more and talked with Ruth Paine some and was busy trying to make arrangements to get someone to come down and take care of Ruth Paine's children and Marina's children so I could bring them to the city hall and I did assist Stovall and Adamcik in this search, briefly--I didn't do too much.

Mr. Ball.

Could I see the report there, please?

Mr. Rose.

Yes--I wrote that report shortly after the 24th--I believe it was around the 24th, but I don't remember for sure what date I wrote it. I wrote it from some notes that I had taken.

Mr. Ball.

Now, after you were there for a little while, did Michael Paine come in?

Mr. Rose.

Yes; we had only been there a few minutes and we were in plain cars, so I don't know whether he knew we were there. He didn't appear to know we were there, and he walked up the sidewalk and just walked in the door without knocking, and I was standing just around the corner talking to Ruth Paine and she was standing in his view and he didn't see any of the officers--we were all out of sight at that time, and he walked in and he said, "I came to help you. Just as soon as I heard where it happened, I knew you would need some help."
Then he apparently saw us and then he spoke to us.

Mr. Ball.

Did Marina Oswald tell you--point to the blanket and say something?

Mr. Rose.

She pointed to the blanket and said something in Russian and Ruth Paine was standing right there beside her and she interpreted for me--she said, "That's where her husband's rifle is."

Mr. Ball.

About that time, while you were there, did a Mrs. Linnie Randle come over to you?

Mr. Rose.

She might have come up to the yard and I didn't talk with her--I saw her out in the yard--I didn't talk to her.

Mr. Ball.

You didn't talk to her at all?

Mr. Rose.

At that time I didn't--I did later.

Mr. Ball.

You brought Ruth Paine and Marina down to the police department, did you?

Mr. Rose.

Yes; we took Ruth Paine and Marina and Marina's two children in our car and also the blanket--I carried it.

Mr. Ball.

And the rest of that day you spent in inquiring for and looking around for Wesley Frazier?

Mr. Rose.

Well, we came on back to the city hall and we took Ruth Paine and Michael Paine and Marina Oswald to the homicide office, but it was so crowded that we transferred them to the forgery bureau office next door, and then someone came over and I believe it was the Detective Senkel, to take affidavits from them and I immediately started trying to locate Wesley Frazier.
We were told that he would be at Parkland Hospital, but we checked through Parkland and there was no Fraziers there and I started a heck of the clinics and the doctors' offices in Irving, and I located through one of the nurses, I believe, or talked to someone on the phone there that Mr. Frazier was in the hospital there at Irving Clinic, so I called Detective McCabe in Irving and that Wesley was the one that had brought Lee Oswald to work that morning.

Mr. Ball.

You took a statement from Frazier that day?

Mr. Rose.

Yes; we got Frazier and brought him in and took a written affidavit off of him.

Mr. Ball.

And you also talked to Linnie Randle that night?

Mr. Rose.

Yes; I brought her in, too.