Mr. Griffin. Did there come a time during the rest of the day when you talked with Ruby?
Chief Batchelor. I never did talk with Ruby.
Mr. Griffin. Do you recall the rumors, stories that began to come in about how Ruby got down into the basement?
Chief Batchelor. In the course of the next day or two we heard lots of rumors that he had a press card. This was the prevailing rumor, that he had a press card, but there wasn't a press card found on him.
Mr. Griffin. I am trying to direct your attention to the events fairly close after the time of, the time Oswald was shot. What did you do in connection with attempting to find out how Ruby got down in that basement?
Chief Batchelor. I don't know that I did anything specifically to try to find that out. We began to think in terms of an overall investigation into the matter.
Mr. Griffin. Did Chief Curry convene any sort of meeting or gather together any of the top officers to discuss this?
Chief Batchelor. He discussed it with Lumpkin and Stevenson and I. I don't recall exactly when this happened, whether it happened just—I am sure it didn't happen just immediately after it happened, because there were obvious things that would take place first, and that would be the investigation, that homicide would carry on, an interrogation of Ruby himself.
We even got some rumors the next day that some of our officers had borrowed money from a bank and Ruby was a cosigner on the note, and we ran a check at every bank in Dallas, but the banks where this—the most probable one was the Republic Bank. We ran a check there by sending the name of everybody that was in that basement over to the bank, and having them check for us and see if they had any notes on these people.
We also checked with, I believe, the Mercantile, and we checked with the Oak Cliff Bank and Trust Co., because Ruby happened to live out in that area.