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NYPD-SIS-#146-92A.

MRS. HATHWAY: Well, we were all across the hall in Apartment Four A when suddenly the shooting started. I would say it was about fifteen minutes after four in the morning.

MISS KALER: Closer to four thirty.

MRS. HATHWAY: I had my brooch watch, you silly thing, and it was almost four fifteen.

MISS KALER: Four thirty.

QUESTION: Ladies, please. What happened then?

MRS. HATHWAY: Well, this masked man who had been so mean and cruel rushed to the window and began firing his weapon. He broke the glass—and what a mess it made on the rug. And he fired his gun down into the street. And then. …

MISS KALER: And then there were these terrible explosions on the stairs and men shouting and everyone wondered what was happening. So I said we should all sit right where we were and not move, and that would be the best thing, and this ruffian kept shooting his gun out the window, and I was thankful we were not in our own apartment as I feared the policemen might fire an atomic rocket through the window and destroy just everything. And just about then this other masked man came through the door and he was drawing a gun from his pocket and I thought he would also fire down through the window but he didn’t …