Q: (HADLEY):...Is it accurate to say that Mr. Mays was in this position, either as to the crank or to his pants, at the time you observed him?

A: (YAWN): That would be-that's not the state that he was in when I observed him.

Q: Okay.  This picture is inaccurate as far as his position had changed between the time you observed him and the time it was taken?

A: Yes.

Following Yawn, Barbara Spencer Tinsley2 became the only witness to describe what may have been the gunfire on Christmas Eve. Questioned by Eagan's assistant, Steve Thacker, she said that she arrived at her parents' house, which was west of the furniture store, at about 7:10 that evening.

Q (TRACKER): Upon arriving at your parents' house, Mrs. Tinsley, what transpired?

A (TINSLEY):...It was maybe approximately twenty-five after, right in there, and I heard a set of what I thought at the time was firecrackers.  There was maybe three or four of these explosions and I commented on it at the that time to my daughter who was there also and about fifteen minutes later I heard another set of these explosions.

Q: With regard to the first set of explosions you heard, were you able to determine from what direction they were coming?

A: Yes, sir.  They would have been coming from the east because my mother had the front of the house closed up and the back window open which I was sitting at in a chair and the window was to the east and it was very loud....

Q: Are there houses in between the back of your house and the furniture store?

A: There are some there, sir, but they are not in line, you know, they are sporadic so there is open space there.

Q: With regard to the first set of explosions you heard, approximately how many explosions did you hear?

A: Three or four.

Q: Okay.  And you say this was approximately how long after you first arrived?

A: I'd say between ten and twelve minutes.

Q: And with regard to the second set of explosions, how long after the first set did they come?

A: It was about fifteen or twenty minutes after that.

Q: And do you recall now approximately how many explosions you heard on the second occasion?

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2 She had married since Christmas Eve, and had taken her husband's name.