Mr. Belin. Is the description that you used with the police officers the same that you dictated here into the record from your notes?
Mr. Day. Yes, sir.
Mr. Belin. Anything else with regard to the rifle?
Mr. Day. I can't think of anything else that I did with it at the time.
I don't know whether you are interested in this or not, but about, it must have been about 8:30 I was processing the gun on the fourth floor——
Mr. Belin. Of the police department there?
Mr. Day. Of the police department where my office is. The identification bureau. And Captain Fritz came up and said he had Mrs. Oswald in his office on the third floor, but the place was so jammed with news cameramen and newsmen he did not want to bring her out into it.
Mr. Belin. Was this the wife or the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Day. That was Marina, Oswald's wife. She had her baby with her, or babies, and there was an interpreter down there. He wanted her to look at the gun to see if she could identify it, didn't want to bring her in through the crowd, and wanted to know if we could carry it down. He said, "There is an awful mob down there."
I explained to him that I was still working with the prints, but I thought I could carry it down without disturbing the prints, which I did.