Mr. Slack. Because I read it in the paper about a week afterwards.
Mr. Liebeler. You have no direct knowledge yourself about the scope?
Mr. Slack. No; there were so many different fellows working on the rifle range, there was possibly three or four boys who did it, and I never really connected which one it would be, because I wasn't doing any investigating anyway. See what I mean?
I felt like that knowing the guy and connecting it together, if I just kept my mouth shut and tried to just remember seeing the fellow, there was a lot of that done. It was done in our own family.
In other words, Vernon Stone was with me and Jimbo, he is 12 years old, the boy, and when it dawned on me where I saw him and I knew that I had my son-in-law take my gun, my custom-made gun out of Oswald's, take it out of his hand and put it in the car, because I was afraid he would steal it, and I told Vernon by long distance on the telephone, and Vernon did too, and well, he already had made up in his mind that he never had seen that fellow. He didn't remember anything, and Jimbo doesn't either. He didn't want to remember.
Mr. Liebeler. What is the incident about the rifle? Did Oswald have your rifle at any time?
Mr. Slack. He handled my rifle and he handled my targets, that was the 17th.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you say anything to Oswald other than——
Mr. Slack. The only time—I didn't specifically say to Oswald. I said to all the boys, to seven or eight shooters, about that rapid firing and about shooting other targets rather than the one they bought and paid for. If they were in chair 7, and there was a number down a 100 yards, No. 7, he was supposed to shoot No. 7.
Mr. Liebeler. Other than that, you didn't say anything to him?