From the daily work-log of Walter Janik, custodian, Walker Hall, Walnut College. Pocket notebook, ruled, kept in his locker in the basement. Entries in pencil; the spelling is the spelling. Reproduced for Saturday 5 October 1957.
Sat. 10/5/57
- 6:30 — in, side door, west wing key.
- 7:00 — emptied baskets, halls 1 + 2.
- 7:30 — mopped halls 1 + 2. The corner by the freight elevator is wet through to the underfloor — write it up.
- 8:30 — second-flr lab corridor.
- 9:15 — Dr. Galt's room — wait no — Miss Galt's room — basket only, did not enter the bench area. Did not move anything on the bench. (Mrs. Steed told us new this year not to enter the bench area for any reason without the dept. head's say-so. I am writing this down so they know.)
- 10:30 — boiler check, basement.
- 11:15 — out. Lunch at home.
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- 3:20 — in by the side door for the boiler.
- 3:35 — in the basement. Heard the side door open and close again. Heard somebody walk up the stair.
- 3:50 — went up to check. Mr. Penn was in Miss Galt's room. Mr. Penn has a key, fourth-year, fine. He was at her desk. He was not at his bench. He was opening the second drawer on the right and then closing it. He looked at me when I came around the corner. He said Walter, I'm leaving Helen a note about Monday's seminar. I said yes, Mr. Penn. He had no paper in his hand. There was no note on the desk when I went back up at five fifteen to lock the hall.
- 4:05 — back to the boiler.
- 5:15 — up again. The hall is locked. Miss Galt's room is locked, by Mr. Penn presumably, on his way out at four fifty. I did not enter.
- 6:05 — out.
— W. Janik.
A separate slip, paper-clipped to the page on the Wednesday morning following, in Janik's hand:
To Mrs. Steed — for the file. I think this should be in the access-log packet for the weekend. I have copied my own version of the entry above onto this slip exactly. The original page of my work-log stays with me in my locker as usual. Mr. Penn is a young man with a fair career ahead of him and I have no quarrel with him. I am giving you this because Miss Galt asked me on Tuesday afternoon whether I had been in her hallway on Saturday between two and five, and I said yes. She did not ask me what I had seen. I am telling you anyway, on the chance that someone with more standing than mine will know what to do with it. — W.J., 9 October 1957.