"Okay," Hadley said.

"I was here in front of you before."

"Right."

"What else am I coming back again for?  Do I know that?"

Hadley explained that he still had some questions.

After a few general inquiries, Hadley asked about a young woman with whom Williams had shared an apartment before Christmas Eve.

Williams bristled.

"Come on now," he said.  "I know you've been checking around. Come on now.  Bring up something else."

"Beg your pardon?"  Hadley said.

"I hear y'all been checking around and finding out this and that, how I live, and where I live, and so on.  I try to tell you the truth. You don't believe me.  What I don't know, I can't tell you."

Hadley took Williams through every detail of his testimony, sometimes more than once.

Williams became impatient.  His voice got loud.

"I don't know now if you're playing me for a fool," he said at one point.

"You're trying to get me mad, aggravate me," he said a few minutes later.

After nearly two  hours of testimony, Hadley bored in on the scene in the rear parking compound, when Zeigler was supposed to have given Williams the pistol and begged him to come into the store.  Williams mentioned that he saw a black man and a white man near the motel, across the fence.

Q (HADLEY): Why didn't you call for help?  There were people in the Winter Garden Inn.  Why didn't you call for help?

A: (WILLIAMS): I don't know anybody in the Winter Garden Inn.  Two people I saw on this side of the fence walking.  When I got over on this side of the fence, was a black man and a white man.

Q: Why didn't you say help, I need some help over here?

A: A black man was walking.  I think the last time I seen him is in Tildenville, I said.  I'll call the man.  He (Zeigler) said, Edward, don't call him; no, don't call him.

Q: You had the gun.  Tommy couldn't stop you from calling for help.

A: Well, I jumped the fence and ran for help.

Q: When the people were right there and you had the gun, Tommy's on his knees begging, why didn't you just call for help?

A: I jumped the fence and got help.  I wanted to get the law.