Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Backes disputes that they found the bus transfer ticket about 4:00. But, it led them to McWatters, and they got to him shortly after 6.

Mr. BALL - Did they come out and get you? 
Mr. McWATTERS - They come out and-- 
Mr. BALL - What did they ask you? 
Mr. McWATTERS - Well, they stopped me; it was, I would say around 6:15 or somewhere around 6:15 or 6:20 that afternoon. 
Mr. BALL - You were still on duty, were you? 
Mr. McWATTERS - Yes, sir. 
Mr. BALL - Still on your bus? 
Mr. McWATTERS - I was on duty but I was on a different line and a different bus. 
Mr. BALL - What did they ask you when they came out? 
Mr. McWATTERS - Well, they stopped me right by the city hall there when I come by there and they wanted me to come in, they wanted to ask me some questions. And I don't know what it was about or anything until I got in there and they told me what happened. 
Mr. BALL - What did they tell you? 
Mr. McWATTERS - Well, they told me that they had a transfer that I had issued that was cut for Lamar Street at 1 o'clock, and they wanted to know if I knew anything about it. And I, after I looked at the transfer and my punch, said yes, that is the transfer I issued because it had my punch mark on it. 

Since they got to McWatters shortly after 6, and it was the transfer that led them to him, didn't they have to go to the bus depot and show the transfer and have someone look it up and point them to McWatters? Otherwise, they would have had to describe the punch mark on the phone. And didn't it take a bit of time for them to track him down? And then they waited until his bus passed City Hall to grab him. Isn't it reasonable that if they got to McWatters shortly after 6 that they must have found the transfer ticket around 4? It took a some time to figure it out, connect the dots, and get him, didn't it? So, it couldn't have been too much after 4 that it all got started, which means that you are quibbling about nothing, Backes. Absolutely nothing.