Mr. Fritz. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCloy. So in your opinion your fingerprints wouldn't show?
Mr. Fritz. He could have taken mine but I let him dust first before I ejected a shell.
Mr. Ball. How long did you stay at the Texas School Book Depository after you found the rifle?
Mr. Fritz. After he told me about this man almost, I left immediately after he told me that.
Mr. Ball. You left almost immediately after he told you that?
Mr. Fritz. Almost after he told me that man, I felt it important to hold that man.
Mr. Ball. Did you give descriptions to Sims and Boyd?
Mr. Fritz. Yes, sir; I told them to drive me to city hall and see if the man had a criminal record and we picked up two other officers and my intentions were to go to the house at Irving. When I got to the city hall, I asked, because, I will tell you why I asked because while we were in the building we heard that our officer had been killed, someone came in and told me, I asked when I got to my office who shot the officer, and they told me his name was Oswald, and I said, "His full name?" And they told me and I said, "That is the suspect we are looking for in the President's killing."
So, I then called some of my officers to go right quickly, and asked them about how much evidence we had on the officer's killing and they told me they had several eye witnesses, and they had some real good witnesses, and I instructed them to get those witnesses over for identification just as soon as they could, and for us to prepare a real good case on the officer's killing so we would have a case to hold him without bond while we investigated the President's killing where we didn't have so many witnesses.