Did the Davises see anyone (other than Mrs. Markham)?

Speaking of the Davises.... A few curiosities:

Barbara D testified that a "man was coming across the yard.... First off 
[Mrs. Markham] went to screaming before I had paid too much attention to 
him, and pointing at him...." (v3p343)

While Mrs. M herself testified, "He cut across Patton St. like this.  
Toward Jefferson.  Then he was still in sight WHEN I BEGAN TO SCREAM AND 
HOLLER...." (v3)

If Mrs. M is correct re the point at which she began to scream, then 
Barbara D couldn't have seen the suspect while Mrs M was screaming and he 
was still in the front yard.

Another curiosity:  Barbara D charts (on CE 534) the path that she says 
that the suspect took across the front yard.  Note that that path comes 
nowhere near the intersection of 10th & Patton.  While Mrs. M is famous 
for her kitty-korner confrontation with him while he's standing at the 
opposite corner of the intersection.

Virginia D., possibly, reconciles Barbara D & Helen M in her own 
testimony:

Mr. BELIN. Well, let me try and reconstruct your actions then.
You heard the shots?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You ran to the door?
Mr. BELIN. What did you see when you got to the door?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, we just saw, you know, the police car parked down there
and we wondered what was going on, so we heard Mrs. Markham across the
street calling.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. Well, she told us to call the police, well, so we went to the 
house.
We was already in the house, and we went to the phone and called the 
police.  (v6p460)

If we stop right there, Virginia D's testimony makes sense here.  She and 
Barbara D hear Mrs M telling them to "call the police".  And they proceed 
to do just that.  No mention of Mrs M screaming yet, and no sighting of 
the suspect in the yard.  She just says to call the police.  They do that.  
However, Virginia D continues, disastrously:

Mrs. DAVIS. Well, she told us to call the police, well, so we went to the 
house.
We was already in the house, and we went to the phone and called the police.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
460 
Mrs. DAVIS. Then we went back to the front door.
Mr. BEI.IN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. DAVIS. We saw the boy cutting across the street.

This v e r y s l o w moving suspect is still in sight AFTER the Davises 
call the cops!?  That's where Virginia D's testimony goes off the rails 
here.  Up to that point, she seems to reconcile her testimony with Mrs 
M's.  Then she has the "boy" still in sight and, for some reason, "cutting 
across the street".  (This is the only time that either Davis says that 
they saw the suspect cross a street.)

But until this incredible coda, Virginia D paints a believable picture of 
the shooting scene:  The Davises see and hear Mrs M telling them to call 
the police, and they do.  Mrs M then picks up the story as the suspect is 
running up Patton, and THEN she starts screaming.  Again, believable:  
She doesn't call attention to herself with screaming until he's trotting 
off AWAY from her.

dcw