Mr. Callaway. Yes, sir; out of the holster, and it was unsnapped. It was on his right side. He was laying with the gun under him.
Mr. Ball. What did you do?
Mr. Callaway. I picked the gun up and laid it on the hood of the squad car, and then someone put it in the front seat of the squad car. Then after I helped load Officer Tippit in the ambulance, I got the gun out of the car and told this cabdriver, I said, "You saw the guy didn't you?" He said, yes.
I said, "If he is going up Jefferson, he can't be very far. Let's see if we can find him." So I went with Scoggins in the taxicab, went up to 10th, Crawford, from Crawford up to Jefferson, and down Jefferson to Beckley. And we turned on Beckley. If we had kept going up Jefferson, we probably—there is a good chance we would have seen him, because he was headed right towards the Texas Theatre. But then we circled around several blocks, and ended up coming back to where it happened.
Mr. Ball. And the ambulance—had the ambulance been there by that time?
Mr. Callaway. Oh, yes; the ambulance already left before I ever left with the cabdriver.
Mr. Ball. Did you go down to the police station later?
Mr. Callaway. That evening.
Mr. Ball. What time?
Mr. Callaway. I think it was around 6:30 or 7 o'clock. I remember it was after dark.