Here's part of the Stroud letter:
"Mr. Bellin [sic] was questioning Miss Adams whether or not she saw anyone
as she was running down the stairs. Miss Garner, Miss Adams supervisor,
stated this morning that after Miss Adams went downstairs, she (Miss Garner)
saw Mr. Truly and the policeman come up."
No where does this letter state that Garner saw anyone go down the stairs or come up the stairs. It could be Garner merely assumed both that Adams went down the stairs and that Truly and the policeman then came up.
True, she doesn't say that but she told Barry Ernest that she heard them on the noisy stairs.
http://www.whokilledjfk.net/another_witness.htmBarry Ernest wrote;
The focus of my call to her, of course, was Victoria Adams, whether Mrs. Garner was indeed in a position to have seen Baker and Truly or anyone else on the back stairs, and who she had made the comment to that appeared in the Stroud document.
"I was at the window with Elsie Dorman, Victoria Adams, and Sandra Styles," she said.
Did Miss Adams and Miss Styles leave the window right away, I asked her.
"The girls did," she responded. "I remember them being there and the next thing I knew, they were gone." They had left "very quickly…within a matter of moments," she added. What did Mrs. Garner do after that?
"There was this warehouse or storage area behind our office, out by the freight elevators and the rear stairway, and I went out there."
Her move to that area clearly put her into a position where she could have observed activity on the back stairs as well as on the elevators. But how fast had she arrived there?
Mrs. Garner said she immediately went to this area, following "shortly after…right behind" Miss Adams and Miss Styles. She
couldn't remember exactly why she went out there, other than to say, "probably to get something." Mrs. Garner said she did not actually see "the girls" enter the stairway, though, arriving on the fourth-floor landing seconds after. When I asked how she knew they had gone down, Mrs. Garner said, "I remember hearing them, after they started down. I remember the stairs were very noisy."
Were the freight elevators in operation during this time?
"I don't recall that," she answered. "They were very noisy too!"
Mrs. Garner said she remained at that spot and was alone for a moment before "several came out back from the office to look out those windows there."
Truly and Baker were back on the fourth floor a minute or so before 12:37 because Baker spoke to Inspector Sawyer, and Sawyer estimates he was back on the first floor by 12:37.
Mr. SAWYER. To look around on the floor. How long it took to go up, it
couldn't have been over 3 minutes at the most from the time we left,
got up and back down.
Mr. BELIN. Then that would put it around no sooner than 12:37, if you
heard the call at 12:34?
Mr. SAWYER. Yes, sir.
Mr. BAKER - As we descended, somewhere around--we were still talking
and I was still looking over the building.
Mr. BELIN - As the elevator was moving?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir; downward.
Mr. BELIN - All right.
Mr. BAKER - The next thing that I noticed was Inspector Sawyer, he was on
one of those floors there, he is a police inspector.
Stroud could have seen Truly with Baker in the stopped elevator and figured they had used the elevator to "come up" to the fourth floor and not the stairs previously. That might be why Stroud thought they missed meeting Adams on the stairs, because they were using the elevator.
Nice bit of speculation, for which, of course there is not a shred of evidence.
From a post in 2011 by Sean Murphy ( Link ):
"Sandra Styles mentioned to me that this author [Barry Ernest] had contacted her
some years ago. She even knew the name of the book (which I hadn't heard
of myself). Sandra claimed she told Ernest what she was now telling me:
that she and Victoria Adams did *not* go to the rear stairs anything close to
as quickly as Victoria had claimed. I find it a little worrying that there is no mention
of Sandra's counter-version in any of the promotional material linked here."
Probably a minute passed before they even left the window. Styles said they ran to the passenger elevator and waited awhile before heading for the stairs. So crossing the fourth floor about 12:33 would allow them to miss meeting Truly and Baker on the stairs; Adams and Styles arrive on the first floor about 12:34 (where Lovelady is supposedly encountered). Meanwhile Truly and Baker arrive by elevator on the fourth floor about 12:35. Thus Stroud could have seen Adams go by and two minutes later noticed Truly.
Styles has changed her story several times and apparently she did not tell Barry Ernest the same thing, as this is what Ernest says about that;
Mrs. Garner was providing two key pieces of evidence: one that corroborated Victoria Adams regarding how quickly she and Sandra Styles left the window and moved to the back staircase, and a second that corroborated the Stroud document by putting Mrs. Garner at a location on the fourth floor where she could have observed activity on the stairs immediately after the shooting.
Like Sandra Styles, who also verified Miss Adams' timing of the descent in my personal interview with her, Dorothy Garner had been ignored by the Warren Commission.
With all this 'could have been' speculation going on, there is one major question that needs to be answered but never is.
Styles was photographed standing with a group of women near the front entrance of the TSBD, before she went back inside the building through the front door, which at that time was not yet sealed off. As the front entrance was being locked down at 12:37, how in the world could Styles have been there if she and Adams were still on the 4th floor at 12:35?
In her testimony, Adams told us that she and Styles ran down the stairs, left the building through the back door at the loading dock, running around the loading dock towards the railway yard. There a policeman stopped them and told them to return to the building, which they did by walking towards the front entrance. And all this is supposed to have happened in 2 minutes? Really?
One thing is a clear as the light of day. If Adams and Styles were on the stairs shortly after the shots, then the "Oswald came running down the stairs" theory is possibly flawed or outright wrong. An honest investigation would have wanted to find out what actually happened. Instead the WC simply decided to ignore Adams by not calling her (as the only one of the witnesses) to assist in the reconstruction and by trying to discredit her with one line in her testimony. And Rankin did one better and buried the Stroud letter. These actions by the WC alone tell me beyond doubt that the WC understood that Adams was telling the truth and the women did leave the 4th floor directly after the last shot.
