If they didn't have the evidence and they said, "We file on him, we have got the assassin" I was afraid somebody might take the complaint and I went down to be sure they had some evidence on him.
Mr. Rankin. Have you told us all that you said to the U.S. attorney when you talked to him at that time?
Mr. Wade. So far as I know. I know that concerned that point, you know.
Mr. Rankin. Well, did he say anything to you about that point?
Mr. Wade. Well, I think he asked me was that—I don't think Barefoot was real conversant, I guess is the word with what the law is in a murder charge.
I told him that it had no place in it and he said he had heard it on the radio and didn't know whether it would be—thought it might because some—if it was not necessary, he did not think it ought to be done, something to that effect so I went down there to be sure they didn't.
I went over the evidence which they—when I saw the evidence, it was the evidence as told to me by Captain Fritz.
Mr. Rankin. This conversation you have described you had when Jim Alexander was there and the others?
Mr. Wade. Yes; I first asked Jim Allen, a man whom I have a lot of confidence in, do they have a case and he said it looks like a case, you can try.
Mr. Rankin. Is that the case about the assassination?