Mr. Liebeler. What did you do then?
General Walker. I thought—we had been fooling with the screens on the house and I thought that possibly somebody had thrown a firecracker, that it exploded right over my head through the window right behind me. Since there is a church back there, often there are children playing back there. Then I looked around and saw that the screen was not out, but was in the window, and this couldn't possibly happen, so I got up and walked around the desk and looked back where I was sitting and I saw a hole in the wall which would have been to my left while I was sitting to my right as I looked back, and the desk was catercornered in the corner up against this wall. I noticed there was a hole in the wall, so I went upstairs and got a pistol and came back down and went out the back door, taking a look to see what might have happened.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you find anything outside that you could relate to this attack on you?
General Walker. No, sir; I couldn't. As I crossed a window coming downstairs in front, I saw a car at the bottom of the church alley just making a turn onto Turtle Creek. The car was unidentifiable. I could see the two back lights, and you have to look through trees there, and I could see it moving out. This car would have been about at the right time for anybody that was making a getaway.
Mr. Liebeler. Now as I understand it, there is an alley that runs directly at the rear of your house; is that correct?
General Walker. Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler. Does that alley run directly into Turtle Creek Boulevard, or does it join with another alley?
General Walker. No, sir; it joins with another alley, and it joins with the street called Avondale.
Mr. Liebeler. So that to get——
General Walker. At one end is Avondale, which runs into Turtle Creek going downhill east, and at the other end it goes into the parking lot of the church. As you enter that parking lot from my alley, if you turn directly right, you go down the church alley going into Turtle Creek, and that is where the car was going down that I referred to, and it was just making the turn out of the church alley.