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    "ocrText": "all officers near the jail officeand at the doors to allow\nno one in the area from the jail to the cars and on down\nthe route the prisoner would take, and that the press would\nnot be allowed to approach or even to attempt to converse\nwith the prisoner, and that no one was to follow until\nafter the cars left the basement.\nI was about midway between the corner of the jail office\nand the back of the car on the ramp, when someone shouted\n\"here he comes!\". I was on the east side of the ramp at i\nat this time. I turned to walk to the car on the ramp to\nmake sure the way was clear and that officers were station-\ned on each side of the cars and all the way down the east\nside of the ramp to the cars. I saw officers along the\nroute and officers on each side of the ramp near the cars\nand at the top of the ramp. I also saw Chief Stevenson on\nthe ramp, so I turned to watch the parking area in the\nbasement of the City Hall, when I heard a shot. This was\nsometime shortly before noon, but I don't remember the\nexact time. I turned toward the sound of the shot which\nhad come from my left and to my rear. I shouted to the\nofficers to bar all exits and all ramps. I saw the officers\nclosing the exits and went toward the scuffle where\napparently officers had a man in custody. As I approached\nthe center of the scuffle several voices said \"It was Jack\nRuby\". I do .not know who said this, but as the prisoner\nwas on his feet by this time I could see he was Jack Ruby,\nwhom I had known 10 or 12 years before as the owner of the\nSilver Spur, a nightclub on South Ervay. I told the\nofficers to take him to the jail and then had other\nofficers assist Lt. Swain in keeping the crowd in the\ndesignated area. I assisted in this measure until after\nthe ambulance left with Oswald and I then returned to the\nthird floor after instructing the officers on the doors to\nlet only persons with identification come to the third\nfloor. After returning to the third floor, I assisted in\nthe administration offices.\nI had not seen a man that I recognized as Jack Ruby in the\nCity Hall during the period of the investigation, until\nafter the shooting in the basement.\nRespectfully,\ncateges O.A. JONES,\nCaptain of Police\nForgery Bureau\n56"
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