Mr. Griffin. Were you inside your own office?
Chief Batchelor. No; I was out in the outer office of the administrative offices where the secretaries are.
Mr. Griffin. Do you recall how many reporters confronted you?
Chief Batchelor. There were two of them.
Mr. Griffin. Do you recall who they were?
Chief Batchelor. No; I don't recall who they were now. It was a rather casual request. They asked, or they said, rather, that they were hungry and hadn't had anything to eat and they wanted to go out to dinner, and they didn't want to miss anything if we were going to move the prisoner. And I told them I had no idea when they were going to move the prisoner.
About that time Chief Curry came up and he told them, he said, "Oh, I think if you fellows are back here by 10 o'clock in the morning you won't miss anything."
So they left with that and went to eat.
Mr. Griffin. Were there any other reporters around at that time?
Chief Batchelor. No, sir. Then later, just a very few minutes later, Chief Curry decided, well, he might tell the rest of the people out in the hall so they won't be hanging around, because they were apparently doing nothing, just waiting. So he went out and told them that if they would come back by 10 o'clock in the morning, they were not going to move the prisoner in the meantime.