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patcher that he was "taking a prisoner to the downtown jail. (XXIII H 919) A short time later police brought a "disheveled- looking man from the Depository. Jack Beers Jr. , a photographer for the Dallas Morning News, snapped 2 picture of him. (XIII H 105) Chief Deputy Sheriff Allen Sweatt reported an arrest made about this time which may be a reference tc the same incident. According to him, a police officer "brought a boy with a sport coat up and said, 'Hepe is the man that had done the shooting. i" Since the Warren Com- mission never made any inquiries about this arrest, there is no way of knowing why the police officer thought that he had apprehended the assassin. (XIX H 532) Finally, when Oswald's mother and wife went to visit him in the Dallas Sheriff's Office, they were told that there would be a long delay because the police had "picked up another suspect. " Whoever this man was, the police were quite interested in him. (I H 149) Perhaps the most interesting thing about these suspects is that most or possibly all of then Were arrested at the scene of the crime. Oswald, of course, was not. Physical evidence and eyewitness testimony were also pouring in. Three empty cartridge cases were found near the S. E. corner Window on the sixth flcor of the Depository Bldg., and a bolt action rifle with a telescopic sight was discovered in a different section of the same floor. Ownership of the rifle was not traced until about 2:00 A.M. the next morning. (W-79) Eyewitness testimony indicated the following: 1. Shots had been fired form behind a picket fence which is on top of the grassy knoll to the west of the Dook Depository Bldg. In -23- 23

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