Mr. Walker.

No; it is the downstairs. You had to go downstairs to get to it.

Mr. Belin.

Something like a basement?

Mr. Walker.

Yes. It is a semibasement, I would call it. And everyone came out, and I saw the person that had run in there, and he said that he had ran there to tell the other people about the shooting. And let's see, that he worked there, he told me he worked there and everything. I soon determined he wasn't the one.

Mr. Belin.

Then what happened?

Mr. Walker.

I got back in my car and started cruising the area again. I went up and down the alleys and streets. And there was one incident that really didn't have anything to do with it. I guess I was cruising up the alley with the newspaperman in the car, and I saw a man in long white sleeves, white shirt, walking across the parking lot there of the church, and I couldn't see below his legs, and there was a picket fence there, and when he got about 30 feet from me, I stopped the car, and he was walking toward me, and I had my gun in my lap at the time, and I said, "What is your name?" And he just looked at me. And at that time I didn't know whether he had a rifle or what he had, and he just looked at me, and he bent over, and I stuck my gun in the window and he raised up and had a small dog and he said, "What did you say?" And of course that newspaperman said, "My God, I thought: he was going to shoot us."
I said, "I thought he was reaching down for a rifle."
Of course, he reached down and picked up a little dog.
Then we got around to Beckley and 10th Street, still cruising the area, when I heard the call come over the radio that the suspect was supposed to be at the theatre on Jefferson.

Mr. Belin.

Was this the Texas Theatre?

Mr. Walker.

Texas Theatre; yes.

Mr. Belin.

Then what did you do?

Mr. Walker.

I went in the alley up to the back door. When I arrived there, there was several officers there. There was a plainclothesman up on the ladder back there. I don't know what he was doing up there, but he was up on the ladder that goes up that door that is in the back. And there were several officers around the back of the theatre, and myself, and/McDonald, and Officer Hutson went in the back door. And this man told us, or this boy told us that there was someone, said the person that he had seen was inside the theatre, and that he had changed seats several times, and he thought he was out there in the middle now.

Mr. Belin.

Did be say that he had seen him? Did he tell you what he had seen him do, or not?

Mr. Walker.

He said he seen him duck into the store where he worked, kind of looked back, and looked like he was running, and just run into the theatre.
Mr. . BELIN. Did he say why he seemed to duck in the store at all?

Mr. Walker.

No; he didn't. He said he looked like he was scared.

Mr. Belin.

Then do you remember this man's name that you talked to?

Mr. Walker.

No; it was just for a second, and I went on past him.

Mr. Belin.

All right, this was at the back of the theatre?

Mr. Walker.

Yes----

Mr. Belin.

Did anyone have a gun drawn when this man came?

Mr. Walker.

I had my gun out. I had my gun out when I walked in the back of the theatre.

Mr. Belin.

Did you have your gun as you continued walking through the back of the theatre?

Mr. Walker.

I walked----McDonald and I walked across the stage, and he walked across the farthest away. It would be the south aisle. And I jumped off there where the north aisle runs east and west, and we started up. Hutson went down the steps in front of both of us, and he was slightly in front of me.

Mr. Belin.

You are speaking about Officer T. A. Hutson and Officer M. N. McDonald and yourself?

Mr. Walker.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Belin.

The three of you came in from the back?

Mr. Walker.

Yes; and there were probably a couple more, but I just don't remember.