Mr. Hutson.

Yes.

Mr. Belin.

You are nodding your head, yes?

Mr. Hutson.

Yes.

Mr. Belin.

Do you know how many minutes after the shooting you heard the first notice over the police radio?

Mr. Hutson.

No, I don't.

Mr. Belin.

At times you were working away from your police radio while you were picking up the signs, is that correct?

Mr. Hutson.

Yes; and you can't hear the radio from a distance.

Mr. Belin.

When you heard this news about this shooting in Oak Cliff----by the way, where was your regular station ordinarily?

Mr. Hutson.

I worked west of Vernon on Jefferson.

Mr. Belin.

Is that Oak Cliff?

Mr. Hutson.

Yes; that is West Jefferson Boulevard.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do after you heard about the shooting?

Mr. Hutson.

I got on my motorcycle and I proceeded down through the triple underpass and up onto R. L. Thornton Freeway to Oak Cliff.

Mr. Belin.

Where did you go?

Mr. Hutson.

I exited off Jefferson and went to the 400 block of East Jefferson Boulevard and began a search of the two-story house behind 10th Street where the officer had been shot.

Mr. Belin.

All right.

Mr. Hutson.

And after we searched this area, I got in the squad car with Officer Ray Hawkins, who was driving, and Officer Baggett was riding in the back seat.

Mr. Belin.

Why did you get inside the squad car?

Mr. Hutson.

The clutch on my motorcycle was burned out and I couldn't get any speed and I just barely made it over there, and I didn't know whether I would be able to start and go or not.

Mr. Belin.

Then what did you do?

Mr. Hutson.

We proceeded west on 10th Street to Beckley, and we pulled into the Mobil gas station at Beckley and 10th Street.

Mr. Belin.

That is a Mobil gas station?

Mr. Hutson.

Yes.

Mr. Belin.

All right.

Mr. Hutson.

And Officer Ray Hawkins and Officer Baggett went inside of the Mobil gas station. And I am not positive, but I think they used the telephone to call in.
I am not positive, but I believe they gave us a call for us to call. I mean their number to call in.
At the time they were in the service station, I heard the dispatcher give a call that the suspect was just seen running across the lawn at the Oak Cliff Branch Library at Marsalis and Jefferson.
I reached over and blew the siren on the squad car to attract the officers' attention, Officers Baggett and Hawkins, and they came running out of the service station and jumped in the car, and I told them to report to, I can't remember, Marsalis and Jefferson, the suspect was seen running across the lawn at the library.
We proceeded south on Beckley to Jefferson, and east on Jefferson to Marsalis, where we hit the ground and searched the area at the library for the suspect who was---a teenager had run across the lawn and into the basement of the library.
At this time, after we found out that this person wasn't involved, we returned to the squad car and began to drive west on Jefferson, west on East Jefferson, and as we approached the 100 block of East Jefferson, the dispatcher said on the radio, that a suspect was just seen entering the Texas Theatre.

Mr. Belin.

Now the suspect in the library, do you know who he was?

Mr. Hutson.

No; I don't. There were several officers at the location, including some constables from the constable's office in Oak Cliff at Beckley and 12th, and there were four or five persons that came out from the basement with their hands over their head.