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Q-That is what you read, but I mean people talking. Could you give me half a dozen names of people who talk ?
A.-No. A. No. I could not.
Q-But merely those
you
recollect?
A.-No; I have heard men speak in common conversation, that is all.
Q.-But it is a subject that would interest you. You are in the department and if you heard a man say the Overseers get squeezes it would naturally strike you?
A.-No. I never heard any one mention personally to me about the squeezing.
Q.-You-have merely heard it repeated in conversation?
À-Yes.
Q-Well, everything you hear comes out of some one's mouth. Now cannot you give me the names of a few individuals?
A.-No; I would not like to do that, because perhaps if I give you the names of half-a-dozen people they might say point blank they did not say it.
Q.-Well, no matter; it will be no harm to you.
A.—Well, I would rather not. I could not give you the name of any one.
Q. Why not?
A. Because I am not sufficiently acquainted with them. It is merely in the way of talking about these paragraphs that have appeared in the paper. People will talk of
course about these things.
Q.-I know they will. I only want you to tell us-there is no harm in telling who they are.
A. No. I cannot. It is merely in a common way. There might have been four or five, or five or six.
Q-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Did they say they believed these stories?
A.--No, I never heard any one say they believed it.
Q.-What do they say then?
A.-Simply talking about it.
Q.-Well, what is the general character of the observations they make?
A. They think we are doing very well, and words like that, just in the way
of chaff.
Q.-They think you are doing very well in taking money beyond your pay. When men say that to you what do you say? You were very indignant when I asked you if there was not an opportunity. Were you indignant when a man charged you with receiving money?
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