A: Right.

Q: What about other people?

A: Well, they have to testify to that, not me.

Q: But you did not preserve that evidence?

A: No, I did not.

 Q: Because it was of no value to you?

 A: That's correct.

*

Once again Felton Thomas pointed out the man who had driven up while Mays and Thomas sat in the van in the motel parking lot on Christmas Eve.  The car "looked like a Cadillac," Thomas said.  The man he pointed out was Tommy Zeigler.  His story under direct examination remained the same: the trip to the orange grove, Zeigler's attempted break-in at the store, the trip to what apparently was Zeigler's house, the trip back to the furniture store, where Thomas ran away after watching Charlie Mays enter the front door with Zeigler.

Thomas said that he had met Mays that night "after 6:00."  It was dark, he said.  This became the first major point that Hadley covered in cross-examination.  In his deposition, Thomas had testified that "it was starting to get dark" when Mays drove up in his van.

"Is that correct?" Hadley asked now.

"That's correct," Thomas said.

Hadley asked Thomas what path Mays took to the motel parking lot. Again Thomas traced a route through the concrete block wall behind the Tucker Buildings.  Hadley ended his cross there, convinced that the wall had put a significant dent in Thomas's credibility.

*

Edward Williams was the first witness after the lunch break.  He told the story that he and Hadley had covered twice before under oath. Williams added some new details to the key moment when he claimed that Zeigler had tried to kill him in the back of the showroom: he said that Zeigler had held the gun to his chest when he pulled the trigger, and that when the hammer fell three times "I stopped for a couple of seconds, I was so scared....I ran out the door."

Mostly Williams used the same words and phrases—snap, snap, snap...Please don't kill me, Mr. Tommy...Edward, if you don't go in there you're going to frame me—that by now were familiar to anyone who had followed the case.