Mr. Rankin. And where did this occur?
Mrs. Oswald. In the police department.
Mr. Rankin. Were just the two of you together at that time?
Mrs. Oswald. No, the mother was there together with me.
Mr. Rankin. At that time what did you say to him and what did he say to you?
Mrs. Oswald. You probably know better than I do what I told him.
Mr. Rankin. Well, I need your best recollection, if you can give it to us, Mrs. Oswald.
Mrs. Oswald. Of course he tried to console me that I should not worry, that everything would turn out well. He asked about how the children were. He spoke of some friends who supposedly would help him. I don't know who he had in mind. That he had written to someone in New York before that. I was so upset that of course I didn't understand anything of that. It was simply talk.
Mr. Rankin. Did you say anything to him then?
Mrs. Oswald. I told him that the police had been there and that a search had been conducted, that they had asked me whether we had a rifle, and I had answered yes.