(At this point Mr. Hunter Schmidt, Jr., entered the room.)
Mr. Liebeler. I have brought Mr. Hunter Schmidt, Jr., into the room and Mr. Schmidt has previously been sworn as a witness and testified yesterday on this question. I introduce you to Mr. Dial Ryder.
Mr. Schmidt. Mr. Ryder, how do you do?
Mr. Liebeler. As I have indicated to Mr. Ryder, Mr. Schmidt testified yesterday that on the morning of November 28, 1963, you came to work in your office at the Dallas Times Herald and received information of some sort that possibly Lee Oswald had had some work done on a rifle, on his rifle or a rifle, in some sports shops or gunshop in the outlying areas of Dallas. Would you tell us briefly what happened after that, Mr. Schmidt?
Mr. Schmidt. After I got the tip, I traced it down and thought it was Garland first and I looked it up in the phonebook—the city directory—and the usual sources that we go through—I looked through and this Ryder was the only one that I could find, or apparently he was the one that said what I was looking for.
Mr. Liebeler. Where did you get Ryder's name in the first place; do you know?
Mr. Schmidt. Well, it was from a tip around the police station. Now, I don't remember. I have been trying to remember where—who specifically it came from, but it was one of the many we were getting at that time. As I said before, we had several different leads on different stories and that they were coming in pretty thick, so I don't really remember where I got the Ryder name, but it came from around the police station, one of our boys covering this angle of the assassination, called in from down there that a Ryder was supposed to have mounted a scope on a rifle for a customer named Oswald, so I started checking from there, and like I said yesterday, I thought at first it was Garland and I had to do it by a process of elimination.
Mr. Liebeler. And you went through the city directory and you finally found it in the phone book?
Mr. Schmidt. I believe I used the phonebooks and I found this Ryder and I called him up.
Mr. Liebeler. About what time in the morning?