Mrs. Paine. Yes, I did; with slight variation. It always came out a more definite statement in the press than I meant to make it.
Mr. Jenner. What did you say to the reporter then?
Mrs. Paine. I said I did not see how he could have taken the gun from the garage without my knowing it. There were two weekends particularly in question which had been reported in the Press that someone had seen him at a firing range, one being the weekend of the 9th and 10th, and I was home virtually all of that weekend except Monday the 11th as I have already described.
The other being the following weekend, and I didn't see how he could have—the weekend he was not out at my house, I didn't see how he could have come out, taken the gun, gone away without my knowledge, and if the gun had not been in that garage that weekend, I didn't see what the purpose of his coming out the 21st of November was in the situation.
And this is what I told Mr. Tackett of the Fort Worth Press.
Mr. Jenner. Did you also tell Mr. Tackett in addition to, that his reasons for his not engaging in rifle practice that weekend or any other weekend was that he couldn't drive an automobile?
Mrs. Paine. Very probably.
Mr. Jenner. And also that he couldn't have walked that far for rifle practice?
Mrs. Paine. Yes. By that far I mean there is no place you can walk to from my house, not only not to the firing range, but to an open enough place where you could fire. It would be difficult to walk that far.
Mr. Jenner. Where was the firing range at which it was suggested he practiced?