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Fatal Flaw

A True Story of Malice and Murder in a Small Southern Town

- The Defense - Page 126

A: Yeah.

Q: Did he have on a short-sleeved shirt, long-sleeved shirt?  Do you remember, sir?

A: I don't remember what type of shirt he had on, but I believe it was long sleeves.

Q: Do you remember the color?

A: No, I don't.

Q: How about the pants?  Do you remember what color pants he had on?

A: No.  I don't.

Q: All you remember then—if this is a statement—that it was sort of light clothing?

A: Light-colored.

Q: Light-colored?

A: Right.

Once again Thomas told how he and Mays had gone for a ride with the man in his car.  At the preliminary hearing he called the car a light-colored Cadillac, a description that did not fit Curtis Dunaway's two-tone Olds.  Now: "I say it was a Cadillac because it was a big car.  That's why I say it was."

Thomas continued with the now-familiar story of shooting the pistols in an orange grove, returning to the store, and pulling the master switch as the tall man ordered; and of the white man jumping over the fence and trying to coax Mays and Thomas over, and then driving to a house and parking at the garage.

Q: He pulled up into the driveway?

A: Right.  There was a car and a truck there.

Q: There was a car and truck there?

A: Yeah.

Q: What order were they parked in?  Was the car behind the truck, or the truck was behind the car?

A: Well, the truck was behind the car.

Q: Did you happen to notice what kind of car it was?

A: No; I didn't.

Q: Was it a light-or dark-colored car?

A: Well, I ain't paying no attention.

Q: Did you park right beside the car? Or where did you park?

A: Up alongside of the car.

Thomas said that Zeigler "messed around at some shelves" in the garage, then came back to the car with a box, which he gave to Mays. As they backed out of the driveway he ordered Mays to reload the gun, and he drove to the store.

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126
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