Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. BIGGIO. No, sir. I tried to contact Hellinghousen today. Mr. Davis
had gone up to talk to Captain Gannaway in regard to that report. I
had understood that Hellinghousen had written a report from what he
had learned from Mr. Chesher and I tried to contact him and could not,
after Captain Gannaway had called me, so I went out to the Bill Hardy
Real Estate Co. where Chesher works, and I talked to the manager of
that company who is Wey, Jr. The location of the real estate company is
6340 E. Mockingbird Lane. Mr. Wey informed us that Bill Chesher died
night before last of a heart attack in the hospital here. We then asked
him if he had talked to Chesher any about hearing this mechanic talking
in the cafe and he said, “No, he had heard some talk of it, though
and he knew one man who had talked to him” and he called in another
employee of the company, Mr. John P. [spelling] S-c-h-n-i-t-z-i-u-s,
who is also an employee of the Bill Hardy Real Estate Co. and he told
us that Chesher told him the same thing, that the mechanic had came
in and sat by him and it was--that it took place at approximately 10
o’clock at night. He was leaving town--he was going out of town. He
stopped there to get coffee and a sandwich and the man came in while he
was there and he had given no description of the mechanic other than
that he was short and was dressed in work clothes and that the clothes
were greasy and that’s the information that he had, and I believe the
man was telling the truth when he said he was a mechanic and that’s as
far as we have been able to go.
Mr. JENNER. What is it that the mechanic is alleged to have said?
Mr. BIGGIO. He said that Oswald had been driving Ruby’s car for
approximately 2 weeks and that he had brought the car into his garage
for repairs, but he did not mention the name of the garage or the type
of repairs, the type of automobile or anything else.
Now, we, of course--just as soon as that came through, there were
checks made on the repairs on Ruby’s automobile. His automobile was
parked regularly, just a short distance up from the Carousel Club at
the old Adolphus Hotel parking garage and also mechanical work had been
done at that location, and the only other place we can find out where
it had been to any type of garage at all was from receipts in his car
and they were apparently for gas and oil and such things as that--no
mechanical work whatsoever, so we didn’t put much stock in the report,
since it was third hand to start off with.
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