And what was Trask’s source for that claim?
He lists the arrest reports for a 4:00pm recorded arrest time. And an interview on “A Current Affair” with Harold Doyle on 2/25/92 for saying that the recently arrested LHO was there in the police station when he and the other two tramps were processed. But it is unclear to me how the apparent 2:19 to 2:30 timeframe was determined. Trask responded promptly to a question I asked him a while back. Maybe we could ask about this.
Related, I was reading David Harkness’ interview in “No More Silence.” He said he was one of the officers who pulled them off the train. And that he had already driven down to the other side of the triple underpass to look around, gone back to the scene and joined the search in the railroad yard behind the TSBD, interviewed Amos Euins and turned him over, helped seal off the TSBD, then was assigned to search the railroad yards and boxcars. And he said that they detained quite a few people in the area around that train and the station and the triple underpass and that he took 6 or 8 to the Sheriffs office himself. So it seems like this process could have taken a significant amount of time before they had searched every place and taken all of them to the Sheriffs Office. Nothing definite but it appears feasible that Trask is correct.
