Mr. Potts.

go back in the squadroom and you go on back in the squadroom, and this Mr. Dougherty looked at me and he said, "I know that man."
He said, "He works down there in that building--the Texas School Book Depository Building." He said, "I don't know his name, but I know him." So did Arce he said, "Yes, he works down there."
So, I went ahead and took those affidavits from them--from those people and we got them notarized.

Mr. Ball.

You mean Arce and Dougherty?

Mr. Potts.

Arce and Dougherty. There were some more officers back there taking affidavits from some of the others--some of those other people I don't know--you know, time and all the confusion around there, you don't exactly know what time, but my partner, Bill Senkel, and F. M. Turner--we work a three-man squad, and Bill came around and he talked to Captain Fritz, and he said "Come on, let's go. We are going out to 1026 North Beckley."
He came around and told me, he said--he asked me if I had finished taking the affidavits, and I told him, "Yes," and he said, "Captain Fritz wants you and I to go out to Oswald's or Hidell's or Oswald's room."
On his person--he must have had--he did have identification with the name Alex Hidell and Oswald---Lee Harvey Oswald, but Lt. E. L. Cunningham of the forgery bureau, who used to be a member of the homicide and robbery bureau before he made lieutenant, he went with us and we went out there.

Mr. Ball.

Before you went out there, did you get a search warrant?

Mr. Potts.

No; we didn't--we didn't get a search warrant at that time. We went to the location and talked to the people there.

Mr. Ball.

That's Lt. E. L. Cunningham?

Mr. Potts.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Ball.

And who else?

Mr. Potts.

B. L. Senkel.

Mr. Ball.

And yourself?

Mr. Potts.

And myself.

Mr. Ball.

And you went out to where?

Mr. Potts.

1026 North Beckley.

Mr. Ball.

What happened when you got there?

Mr. Potts.

We got there and we talked to this Mrs.--I believe her name was Johnson.

Mr. Ball.

Mrs. A. C. Johnson?

Mr. Potts.

Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Roberts.

Mr. Ball.

Earlene Roberts?

Mr. Potts.

Yes; and they didn't know a Lee Harvey Oswald or an Alex Hidell either one and they couldn't--they just didn't have any idea who we were talking about, so the television--it is a rooming house, and there was a television----

Mr. Ball.

Did you check their registration books?

Mr. Potts.

Yes, sir; we looked at the registration book--Senkel, I think, or Cunningham--well, we all looked through the registration book and there wasn't anyone by that name, and the television was on in the living room. There's an area there where the roomers sit, I guess it's the living quarters--it flashed Oswald's picture on there and one of the women, either Mrs. Roberts or Mrs. Johnson said, "That's the man that lives here. That's Mr. Lee---O.H. Lee." She said, "His room is right here right off of the living room."
Senkel or Cunningham, one of them, called the office and they said that Turner was en route with a search warrant and we waited there until 4:30 or 5 that afternoon. We got out there about 3.

Mr. Ball.

You waited there in the home?

Mr. Potts.

We waited there in the living quarters.

Mr. Ball.

You did not go into the small room that had been rented by Lee?

Mr. Potts.

No; we didn't--we didn't search the room at all until we got the warrant.

Mr. Ball.

Who brought the warrant out?

Mr. Potts.

Judge David Johnston.

Mr. Ball.

The judge issued it, but who brought it out?