Witness: No.

Steuer: Had you ever tried to open this door in the past, to ascertain whether or not this door was kept locked or unlocked?

Witness: No, I just told you. I never go in that door.

Steuer: So for all you know this door was always unlocked?

Witness: For all I know. For all I know they got dancing girls for the bosses up there every day.

Crain: Order, order.

Steuer: Had you ever tried to fit the key on the string into the lock to this door before the day in question?

Bostwick: Objection. Mr. Steuer is badgering the witness with repetitive questions.

Crain: Mr. Steuer, you have established that the witness had no personal familiarity with the door in question. Please continue, Miss Auerbach.

Witness: I go by Mrs. Gottesfeld.

Crain: Mrs. Gottesfeld, I beg your pardon.

Witness: I followed Mr. Jacobs to that door. The Greene Street door for which I got no personal familiarity.

Crain: Order, order.

Witness: So when I go to open the door, something is making it stay closed. I push and I push so hard that it opens a little, and I know Mr. Jacobs is on the other side closing the door, so I push as hard as I can and then the door flies open, because this door opens out, into the stairs, not like the other door, that goes in, like we said, and all of a sudden he must have let go and run away, and I fall right through the door and fall down. After that, I get up, and I don’t see any girls behind me, and I don’t know why not, I don’t know why nobody else thinks of the Greene Street stairway to go out, and when I see the smoke and the flames, I know I can’t go down the stairs after all, but I think maybe I can go up to the roof, because I think how did they get out from the offices up on the tenth floor where the bosses were, and I was right.

Steuer: What happened then?

Witness: I go up to the tenth floor where there is nobody left from the offices, all the people are gone from pressing and shipping, also, just the tables are there, with the goods lying all around, some even on the floor, and I seen this ladder to where there is daylight, which I never thought I would see again, and like a miracle, I am on the roof, and the firemen up there order me to crawl across a ladder they have, over a big gap to another building, so I close my eyes and I do it, even though I have fear to go down the crack in the buildings. And that’s it. Some students help me stand up and I walk down the stairs of that other building out to the street. And I am not allowed to say what I saw after that.

Steuer: Didn’t you say that going across on the ladder between the buildings was like a dream?