Mr. Pierce. Now, they left us where we were there in that small interval of time and it is possible that they went back down and walked across to the stairway that goes to the police locker room, is—that is the only way they could get to it, if they took that route, actually, the question was, “Do I know how?”, and I’m not certain, because I did not follow them or go with them.
The easiest way, across the other stairway and went down to the police locker room or that stairway from Commerce Street down to the porters’ quarters, and the subbasement where our equipment is, from that stairway there is a door that is locked there, also. They would have to have a key. If they got in the police locker room there is a fire escape from the locker room out to the outside in case they ever have to leave, but you cannot go into it without a key.
If they used that route, they had to use a key, which I don’t know if anybody has a key or not.
It is the only two ways they could have gotten there, and at that time when they were immediately clearing out of this area, it is very possible the policemen, knowing that they were building maintenance employees, and been seeing them for years, especially John the head porter, why, and Harold Fuqua in charge of parking of cars in this basement area, might have said it was all right for them to take these stairs down to the locker room as they were going to have to leave this area anyway. They could either have gone to the—they could either have gone from the municipal building down the stairs or permitted them to go back into the police and courts building.
Mr. Hubert. Well, now, they have gotten out of the municipal building by going through the service elevator, through the alleyway door and out through the alley to Main Street, couldn’t they?
Mr. Pierce. They could have, but they couldn’t have gotten—they would have to come back into this basement area down this ramp in order to get into where the stairway is to go down to the police locker room.
Mr. Hubert. Well, they could have gone down the police department building entrance on Harwood, down into this basement.
Mr. Pierce. They would have had to——
Mr. Hubert. Walked around the block, so to speak?
Mr. Pierce. And come down the elevator and walked from there down to the locker room where they did stay.