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they didn’t keep it shut all the time, said Albert. “And
you know he didn’t eat anything in that dining room?’’
“Yes, I know he didn’t eat.’”

And this is the tale that had been told Craven by the
husband of Minola McKnight, and Minola went down there
and in the presence of her counsel, stated these things to
these officers and she never would have done it if it hadn't
been the truth. Gordon was down there, and he could have
said—and if he hadn’t said it then he’s unworthy of the
name of lawyer—~'‘Minola, if these things aren’t true, don’t
you put your name to it, if you do you are liable to go to
the penitentiary for false swearing; if you don’t, the writ
of habeas corpus is guaranteed to every man, and in less
than two hours, by an order of a judge of the Superior Court
T'll have you out of here’? And yet, George Gordon, with
his knowledge of the law, with his knowledge of his client’s
rights, sits there and lets Minola McKnight, the cook, who
is sustained in the statement that she then made, but which
here in this presence she repudiated, corroborated by her
husband and sustained in many particulars by the Seligs
themselves,—George Gordon sat there and Jet her put her
fist to that paper, swearing to 2 lie that might send her to
the penitentiary, and he was her lawyer and could have re-
leased her from that prison by a writ of habeas corpus as
quick as he could have gotten to a judge, because any judge
that fails to hear a writ of habeas corpus immediately is
subject to damages and impeachment.

But Craven was there and Albert was there and this
woman, McKnight, sitting there in the presence of her
lawyer, this man that was so eager to inject Into this ease
something that these men wanted in here all the time, but
never sould get until he got on that stand and swore that
I had said a thing that you saw by the questions that I
asked him never did occur, that I was afraid that I would
get in bad with the detectives—I would get in bad with
them if I would try to run their business, and I never will
get in bad with them because I never expect to undertake ‘

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