Mr. Hubert. But you didn’t hear the press people ask?
Chief Batchelor. No; the press people didn’t ask me that.
Mr. Hubert. Your instructions were that it would be all right if they kept back and if the line of policemen were put in front of them, and so far as you know, it was done?
Chief Batchelor. That was done. There were a number of policemen along there with them, and there were not very many people along there. That is not very wide across there. I imagine about maybe 12 feet. And they were not over about two deep where one could look over another’s shoulder.
Mr. Hubert. About what time did that happen? Was it after the armored truck arrived?
Chief Batchelor. They were lined up there at the time Lieutenant Pierce and the sergeant took that car out the Main Street ramp, because they had to part them to get the car through.
Mr. Hubert. So that your conversation with Talbert about that would have been after you left the armored truck, I would think?
Chief Batchelor. No; not necessarily. They were standing there for some little time, because they didn’t know exactly when he was coming down. No; it was before.
If you mean after the last time I walked down to the armored truck and got down to the basement—well, it could have been, because it was some little time after I searched that armored truck, and I didn’t go back up there.
I say some little time, being probably 15 or 20 minutes, something like that. I can’t recall definitely the exact time that Talbert asked me this, but it was during the last period of time I was in the basement.