Mr. Dean. From Lieutenant Pierce.
Mr. Griffin. And do you know who Lieutenant Pierce received his instructions from?
Mr. Dean. No, sir.
Mr. Griffin. What did Pierce tell you?
Mr. Dean. His instructions were for me to take a group of men and—or whatever men I needed, and thoroughly search the garage portion of the basement, to vacate it and then thoroughly search it. I——
Mr. Griffin. Did you—go ahead.
Mr. Dean. I took about 13 reserve officers that were waiting in the assembly room, which is on the ground floor, the basement floor, along with Sergeant Putnam, Officer L. E. Jez, and A. R. Brock, and these 13 reserves that were in the detail room at that time, names of which I don't know. They were commanded by Captain Arnett. I do know this. And Captain Arnett assisted in the search, too. We vacated the basement of all people.
Mr. Griffin. All right. Are you talking about just the garage area or the entire basement?
Mr. Dean. The garage area. And I assigned Officer R. E. Vaughn to the entrance ramp, which is entering on Main Street, Officer R. C. Nelson to the doorway coming from the police and court building and into the basement, and Officer B. G. Patterson the Commerce Street ramp, which is the exit, and I assigned one reserve officer to the southern portion of the basement, to the stairways that lead into the subbasement or the machine room.
Mr. Griffin. Now, the regular officers that you assigned were Vaughn, Nelson, and Patterson, is that right?