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The prosecuting attorney, whose repeated objections to the testimony of the
witness had been overruled, waived cross-examination.
Turning to the clerk, "Please call Stephen Murray," said Jimmy's attorney.
Murray, burly and swaggering, took the witness chair. The attorney handed him
a letter. It was the letter that Murray had written Bince enclosing the supposed
I.W.W. threat.
"Did you ever see that before?" he asked.
Murray took the letter and read it over several times. He was trying to see in it
anything which could possibly prove damaging to him.
"
Sure," he said at last in a blustering tone of voice. "I wrote it. But what of it?"
And this enclosure?" asked the attorney. He handed Murray the slip of soiled
"
wrapping paper with the threat lettered upon it. "This was received with your
letter."
Murray hesitated before replying. "Oh," he said, "that ain't nothing. That was just
a little joke."
"
You were seen in Feinheimer's with Mr. Bince on March--Do you recall the object
of this meeting?"
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