Mr. Fritz. Mexico, I don't remember him admitting that he had been to any part of Mexico.
Mr. Ball. What do you remember him saying?
Mr. Fritz. I remember he said he did not go to Mexico City and I don't remember him saying he ever went to Tijuana.
Mr. Ball. In your report at 138E you have made a statement there of the conditions under which this interrogation proceeded, haven't you?
Mr. Fritz. Yes; I did.
Mr. Ball. Will you tell us about that. You can describe it either as you state it here in your own words, but tell us what your difficulties were?
Mr. Fritz. I can tell you in just a minute. My office is small as you know, it is a small office, it doesn't have too much room to begin with.
With all the outer office full of officers who all wanted to help and we were glad to have their assistance and help, and we appreciate it, but in the hallway we had some 200 news reporters and cameramen with big cameras and little cameras and cables running on the floors to where we could hardly get in and out of the office.
In fact, we had to get two police officers assigned to the front door to keep them out of the office so we could work.
My office is badly arranged for a thing of this kind. We never had anything like this before, of course. I don't have a back door and I don't have a door to the jail elevator without having to go through that hall for 20 feet, and each time we went through that hallway to and from the jail we had to pull him through all those people, and they, of course, would holler at him and say things to him, and some of them were bad things, and some were things that seemed to please him and some seemed to aggravate him, and I don't think that helped at all in questioning him. I think that all of that had a tendency to keep him upset.