Mr. Hubert. You have fixed the earliest time apparently that you could have seen him at 5:30, and the latest at 7:30, which seems that you saw him not sooner than an hour and a half after you came on, and not later than 3½ hours after you came on. Using these relative time measures, does that assist you in fixing the time? For example, would you be willing to state that you did not see Ruby sooner than an hour and a half after you came on duty?
Mr. Jenkins. Yes; I think definitely I would state that, because for about the first hour and a half, perhaps even 2 hours, I stayed primarily in the pressroom. I was doing the main part of phone reports to the station, because we had a phone and were trying to keep it, and also we were trying to keep a running account of what was happening. This is strictly now an estimate of time. As I say, I only recall asking the time twice, and I don’t ever recall looking at the clock or at my watch until about the time we were ready to go home. It seems like it was 1:15 or 1:30.
Mr. Hubert. You say when you went to get the coffee it was after you had made the 5:30 check of time?
Mr. Jenkins. Oh, yes; definitely.
Mr. Hubert. How much after?
Mr. Jenkins. That would be next to impossible to say. It could have been half an hour or 45 minutes, perhaps.
Mr. Hubert. And it could have been as long as 2 hours afterward, which would have fixed the time of seeing Ruby at 7:30?
Mr. Jenkins. Could have been; yes. I think it was before the 7:30 time, because it just seems like it was, as I remember, before the 7:30 check.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, it was sooner than 3½ hours after you came on duty?
Mr. Jenkins. Yes; I would say that is a safe estimate.