(Testimony of Gerald Lynn Hill)
Mr. Belin.
Now, let me interrupt you here, sergeant. Do you remember the name of the person that gave you the description?
Mr. Hill.
No. I turned him over to Poe, and I didn't even get his name.
Mr. Belin.
Had anyone at anytime given you any cartridge cases of any kind?
Mr. Hill.
No; they had not. This came much later.
Mr. Belin.
Go ahead if you would, please.
Mr. Hill.
All right, I took the key to Poe's car. Another person came up, and we also referred him to Poe, that told us the man had run over into the funeral home parking lot. That would be Dudley Hughes' parking lot in the 400 block of East Jefferson--and taken off his jacket.
Mr. Belin.
You turned this man over to Poe, too?
Mr. Hill.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Belin.
I notice in the radio log transcript, which is marked Sawyer Deposition Exhibit A, that at 1:26 p.m., between 1:26 p.m., and 1:32 p.m., there was a call from No. 19 to 531. 531 is your home number, I believe? Your radio home station?
Mr. Hill.
Yes.
Mr. Belin.
That says, "One of the men here at the service station that saw him seems to think he is in this block, 400 block East Jefferson, behind his service station. Give me some more squads over here." "Several squads check out." Was that you?
Mr. Hill.
That was Owens.
Mr. Belin.
Were you calling in at all?
Mr. Hill.
No. That is Bud Owens.
Mr. Belin.
You had left Owens' car at this time?
Mr. Hill.
I left Owens' car and had 105 car at this time.
Mr. Belin.
Where did you go?
Mr. Hill.
At this time, about the time this broadcast came out, I went around and met Owens. I whipped around the block. I went down to the first intersection east of the block where all this incident occurred, and made a right turn, and traveled one block, and came back up on Jefferson.
Mr. Belin.
All right.
Mr. Hill.
And met Owens in front of two large vacant houses on the north side of Jefferson that are used for the storage of secondhand furniture.
By then Owens had information also that some citizen had seen the man running towards these houses.
At this time Sergeant Owens was there; I was there; Bill Alexander was there; it was probably about this time that C. T. Walker, an accident investigator got there; and with Sergeant Owens and Walker and a couple more officers standing outside, Bill Alexander and I entered the front door of the house that would have been to the west--it was the farthest to the west of the two--shook out the lower floor, made sure nobody was there, and made sure that all the entrances from either inside or outside of the building to the second floor were securely locked.
Then we went back over to the house next door, which would have been the first one east of this one, and made sure it was securely locked, both upstairs and downstairs. There was no particular sign of entry on this building at all. At this point we came back out to the street, and I asked had Owens received any information from the hospital on Tippit.
And he said they had just told him on channel 2 that he was dead. I got back in 105's car, went back around to the original scene, gave him his car keys back, and left his ear there, and at this point he came up to me with a Winston cigarette package.
Mr. Belin.
Who was this?
Mr. Hill.
This was Poe.
Mr. Belin.
You went back to the Tippit scene?
Mr. Hill.
Right.
Mr. Belin.
You went back to 400 East 10th Street?
Mr. Hill.
Right. And Poe showed me a Winston cigarette package that contained three spent jackets from shells that he said a citizen had pointed out to him where the suspect had reloaded his gun and dropped these in the
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