The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1904 ANONYMOUS LETTERS PROVE GREAT SURPRISE IN LAND FRAUD HEARING Defense Claims Episties Were Part of Federal Scheme to Trap Dimond, But Heney Declares Defendant Wrote Them, Seeking Revenge on Hyde---Startling Evidence Offered by Prosecution 3 | { |tor with a lucrative business, DIVORCE SUITS |{FELONS PLAN COST FORTUNE Once Well-to-Do Man Alleges APPEALS TO THE COURT Says He Was Compelled to Sell His Home to Provide Funds for the Litigation Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, April 21,—That he has | been ruined by defending divorce suits | commenced by his wife is the charge { made by John Dings against Julia M. Dings, a wealthy resident of Highland | Park, in an affidavit filed in the Su- | perior Court. From being a contrac- Dings { declares, he has fallen to the position of a day laborer, working for $1'35 a | day, through the desire of his wife to | obtain legal separation. | | Dings further asserts that, besides , That He Has Been Made| Folsom and Were Captured Poor by Defending Actions | ! Willlam Leverone, one of the retaken A JAIL BREAK Convicts Who Escaped From Discovered in Conspiracy LETTER REVEALS A PLOT | Inmates of a Prison Said to| Have Contributed Money to Prevent an Execution Special Djspatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, April 2L—Sheriff David Reese is convinced that the four . Folsom convicts now confined in the; County Jail are planning to escape, and he has redoubled his watchfulness. The wickets on their iron cell doors have been securely fastened and they will not be permitted to have any further communication with one another. This morning Night Jailer Timothy Haggerty found in front of the cell of Folsom prison escapes, a small bundle of newspapers. A long string attached | ‘recommend Paine’'s Celery Compound, as | the case of ailing women."—MIS! | and most effective medicine 1 have ever FAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND. You Can Feel Better at Once Try Just One Day—BRACED—INVIGORA' Hearty. Bracing Health That Thousands Upon Thousands Are Getting From the Celebrated Nerve Vitalizer and Tonic. Paine’s Celery Compound Overwork—Extreme Nervousness. “For several years I suffered with ex- treme nervousness, due to overwork in my exacting duties as pressgan, and could scarcely sleep at njght. ¥ was of Paine’s Celery Compound by a friend, and after taking one bottle received a great deal of benefit. I purchased an- other bottle and consider my nerves bet- ter than they have -been for years. I cannot speak too highly of Paine's Celery : Compound, and think it one of the world’s greatest medicines.”—J. E. San- berg, 2360 16th Street, S., Minneapolis. AILING WOMEN. Cincinnati. Aug. 26, 1903.—“I heartily I have used it for several purposes and keep it constantly in the house. T say— ‘Once used, always used'—especially in S ESSIE LLOYD, 1251 Russell Street. “I Was Sick—Dizzy—Worn-Out.” North Weymouth, Mass., Dec. 14.— “Paine’'s Celery Compound is the best taken. 1 was sick, dizzy and worn out for a long time and unable to attend to business. My blood was in troublesome condition. I was advised to try Paine's Celery Compound, which I did with Dleasing results, and in a_short I was able to return to my business. Ly biood is greatly benefited. I would ad- vise all who are run down by overwork or who need a blood tonic to take Paine’'s Celery Compound. They will find that it will be a great benefit to them.”—T. P. Peterson. Bad Blood—N “T testify in regard 3’%’5’&- Celery Compound, that I had bad blood and was subject to neuralgia. and was much bothered, having trled various specifics. but to no purpose: thought I would try Paine’s Celery Compound, used three bot- tles and it cured me. I shall recommend it to all of my friends. I consider it the best medicine I ever met for nervous dis- eases.”—John Erpehnbach, 616 Putnam ave., Eau Claire, ““Blood and Stomach and Heart and Lungs—Liver and Bowels and Brain —the center of all the LIFE, mummhmn* man Body is in the NERVES. Trace mmn-"-m&utuxh:um real source.’ —Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL.D., of Dartmouth University—Famous Dis- coverer of Paine’s Celery Compound. Go to your Druggist TO-DAY— Get one bottle of Paine’s Celery Com- | being harassed by summonses, divorce I bills and cross bills, he has been hu- miliated by detectives. Two divorce bills are now pending against him. He | says he was obliged to sell his home | !to defend the divorce suits. His affidavit declares that his wife |is endeavoring to cut off his dower | 'right to her property and is transfer- ring it to her sister, Mrs. Louisa | | Hodges of Highland Park. =5 ! letters containing threats and also of- ! fers to associate him with Mr. Heney | as Government counsel in this case at | a salary of from $2500 to $5000. We be- | {lieve they were sent him by the Gov- | | ernment detectives: ! “All right, Mr. Wheeler,”; Heney said, | “we'll exploit these fetterg with you.” ‘ “We think Mr. Burns has copies of | { the letters.”” Wheeler added. H “No, Mr. Dimond has the copies,” re- | | torted Burns, who was sitting near. {to the bundle led to Leverone’s cell, and Haggerty at once realized that| | Leverone had been trying to swing 1he; | papers over to the cell of Harry Eld ridge, another of the Folsom escapes, | likewise under a charge of murder. Haggerty opened the bundle and' found inclosed a letter addressed to Eldridge and written by Leverone, who signed himself by his nickname, “Slim.” In the letter, in the vernacular familiar to convicts, Leverone assured Eldridge that if the friends of Joseph Roberts, another of the escapes, are to be relied upon they were all in a fair way to escape. He said it would be an easy matter to secure Haggerty in passing” the corridor by a wire lasso and take his keys and revolver away from him through the wicket. He as- sured Eldridge that the same device had worked well in the East recently in the case of a train robber. Sheriff Reese said to-night that the | fellow convicts of Roberts at Folsom pound—See how DIFFERENT it will make you feel. ever since. Four-fifths of all the State I tions made in the last six months have been made by Hyde and Benson, but have been made so Hyde's name does not appear. He has supplied the money, and every name is really his dummy, bought for $5, $10 or $20, ¢ % # In no_case do parties ever appear personally before Burnes, Hyde's San Francisco notary. Try it. Send some one to him and offer a deed 1o be acknowledged: let your secret ser- vice man say, ‘‘This comes from Hyde, and eee how quick he will put on his seal. Employ local eounsel to help, but let Ban- ning push it. Banning knows Hyde and will leave no stone unturned. Make Benson turn State’s evidence at any cost and you will nail the guiity party. You can work B. through his mistress. Mrs. Curtis tried to de the Government a turn long ago, but did mnot know engugh, Walter Slack dare not, but he knows all Schnieder told Brohaski in Arizona. He worked first for Benson, then for Hyde. Ran the whole State lieu business. Find what Hyde has done with the books Laura Farwell For days after Schnieder told M. D., Hyde and Slack were *with him in Arizena, and your men never got any further satisfac- cases in Washington and elsewhere. He spent many months in Washington, with headquar- ters at Britton & Gray’s. Very suddenly last spring just after his return from Washington he severed his connection with Hyde. 1 have since learned that he became acquainted with Hyde’s methods while In Washington and de- clired to act further, giving as a reason failure on Hrde's part to follow the course advised by B. & G. and himself to meet your suspension order. Neither Hyde or Bemson have ever pald him for his services in the Jand deal and as a congequence he cannot but have a bitter feeling. in fact told a friend he was going to sue them. when the news uf Benson's arrest came. Now the key to the situation is this man Dimond, and if you cam induce him to act with you yom can xet a conviction. 1 have tried to work om him by a series of letters of which T enclose coples. * ¢ & 1 have kept a watch on Hyde and the day Dimond received the next to the last of my letters H. rushed over to his office and remained there for an hour (although they have hardly been on speaking terms), ai when he left he had the appearance of fear, disappointment and anger. Hyde went there in response to a note I sent him and T assume | The secret service man referred to the | fered by Dimond were manufacturcd | Government claim that the letters of- | SSTERDAY WHEN FRANCIS Y P. DIMOND OF WRITING FORMER CLIENT, F. A J. HENEY, COUNSEL FOR GOVERNMENT IN ANONYMOUS HYDE. LETTERS TO SECRETARY OF s desire | ment ick A legal and in which the San Francisco torney was invited and urged to be- Hyde to the Government? answers to these questions were 1 the great land fraud Federal ng Heacock. H 8 Dimond himself, with thorough self- s d intense emphasis, said de's his attorney, Charles . es SUgg Wheeler, declared his faith in his s client’s innocence and his belief that his to the ere the work of the Gov tectives. But the Govern- ing by Counsel Heney, af- letters ¢ the ¢ t epart- | ter denying Wheeler's charge, said, ~ Yes. Dimond wrote all these letters;” ADVERTISEMENTS. and forthwith it began the introduction - e | Of @ mass of evidence. A DAY OF SURPRISE! | Yesterday’s work marks a crisis in | the case Heney's cross-examination of Dimond had begun on Tuesday and | two days had been spent in going over {all the relations between Dimond and Hyde, including their correspondence when Dimond was in Washington pros- ecuting Hyde’s lieu land selections be- 2 eneral Land Office and their Commissioner | dence is said to be in reserve, but the outlines of the Federal position are now clear. Dimond’s knowledge of Hyde's irregularities was so exactly de- fined on cross-examination for the pur- pose of identifying the defendant with these anonymous letters, which Heney was carefully keeping back and which had not been mentioned in the court- room until yesterday. The prosecution questioned Dimond until he admitted his acquaintance with all the facts set | forth in these letters. | Hyde's peculiar methods | 1049 MARKET STREET, = over his failure to di- « nes and McAlMst vide the profits with the attorney. It | was tedious work, but well done, and as it drew to its close the Government lawyer declared that the defendant had trapped himself into the hands of the prosecutioh. " In his of'al testimony and by the cor- respondence offered by him with every | mark of candor, Dimond has shown his | fam rity with Hyde's methods—the | alleged frauds that form the basis of the Government's charge agatust Hyde, | Benson et al. Heney took pains to | have the witness define the bounds of | his acquaintance with these peculiar | methods—the use'of irresponsible per- | sons in obtaining school lands from the States of California and Oregon, the | manufacture of legal papers and the FREE! employment of fictitious names in ap- 1 can of CREAM, any kind, wi | plications to the Government for forest every 25c purchase of Tea or Cof- reserve selections. All the documents in Dimond’s hands were taken posses- sion of by the Government—that is all the documents that Dimond said he had —and these were used to aid in fix- ing the extent of his acquaintance with the alleged .title factory in Hyde's of- fice. But yesterday Dimond unexpectedly announced that he had some more doc- uments—papers not included in the the Digestive Organs. A dose or twoof bundles he had formerly turned over to Heney with the declaration that he was Beecham's | eC concealing nothing. He produced two R ll | of a series of anonymous letters, which he said he received last year. Then will easily put this right, but if neglected came the admission that these letters had been concealed even from his own what a burden of illness may be the con- sequence. counsel until a day or two ago. Their Sold Everywhere. In boxes 10c. and 25e. SPECIALS FOR F.RIBAY AND SATURDAY 20 1bs. Best Dry GRANULATED | SUGAR K£1.00 10-1b sk Best Pamily FLOUR. | 7 1bs. Good Table RICE Singapore Sliced PINEAPPLE, r can oan Ghirardelli's N g o 4 sacks Fine TABLE SALT..10c¢ Large can Judge SALMON, 20¢; 2 for 35¢. Reg. 30c cans. Very Best RANCE EGGS 20e¢ I'c Sproat's I have at SBe per Have a free ¢ sell $1.40 For é Time ‘ Constipation and Indigestion may give rise to mothing more serious than a dis- tressed feeling or discomfort due to an overworked or impoverished condition of was afterward explained by the Gov- ernment’s representatives as due to a “leak”—a court official intrusted with a secret had been indiscreet, and Di- mond’s attorneys had discovered that Heney was planning to make the | anonymous letfers a leading feature of | the case against their client. Hence Heney found himself forestalled yes- terday morning when Dimond volun- teered the story of the letters, and his counsel, Wheeler, at onte charged Wil- liam J. Burns, the well-known detec- tive, with their authorship. i3 These anonymous letters add to the already complicated case one of the most extraordinary problems ever pre- sented in a criminal action. Here, in brief, is the Government's side of it— the only side that has been disclosed. In fact, the Government has but partly shown its band, and much more evi- appearance on the opening of court | | | These facts were not public property when the letters were written. The writer of them, as will be seen when they are read below, had a precise and extensive knowledge of Hyde's meth- ods and business relations, of his deai- ings with his agents, of his failure to make good his defective titles at Di- | mond’s demand and of the Interior De- partment’s investigation of the land frauds. It is in evidence that Hyde had learned of the investigation through corrupted agents of the land 1o be inclosed in the letters to the de- | partment | i ‘;Dll) DIMOND WRITE LETTERS? | “Well, if you are passing compli- | ments,” Heney remarked. ‘“we think | | that Mr. Dimond has the typewriter on ' { which these anonymous letters were | written. What typewriter do you use, | { Mr. Dimond?” 1 | “The Remington,” answered the wit- | | ness. i On examination of the letters it ap- | that they had been writtea on kensdoerfer machine. When gues- tioned further, Dimond admitted that he had owned a typewriter of this make, but left it in Washington, while of the letters, six in number, five had | Jail had raised a fund with which to save him from the gallows, and ‘that the other convicts confined in the County here, Andrew Meyers, William | Leverone, Harry Eldridge and Joseph Murphy, have counted on the assist- ance of Roberts’ friends to enable them | to escape from the County Jail before their return to the Folsom peniten- tiary. o to those set forth in the indictment. | Was this true?” “Well, it may be possible that some | letters were laid on my desk and I just put my name to them without looking to see what they contained.” This was one of the witness’ slips. | For the next half hour the Government been mailed in this city between Au-| gust and December last. letters had been destroyed as soon as received, the witness said, because it contained the names of two women. one | dead, the other living. “It connected Hyde's name with these women,” said Dimond, who then privately informed Heney of the numes in question. The matter was dropped, and Dimond next | handed Heney one of the letters that | he had kepi, saying it was the last but | one he received, and that it had been | slipped under his office door late in! December. This letter was the one shown to Hyde at Felton's suggestion. | It was read in evidence with another | received by mail on August 18 as the! postmark showed. This accounted for | three of the six anonymous letters, the witness promising to produce the other | three if they could be found. | URGES HYDE'S BETRAYAL. ‘ The first letter follows: Now Mr. D, you have told several friends of ours that you ‘‘merely took charge of Hyde ingtol and that you ‘knew nothing of the One of these | | egal and legislative business in Wash- | lawyer kept him ‘on nettles by pro- ducing paper after paper filed with the department and bearing date after Dimond swears he had quit Hyde's service, refusing longer to act as his attorney because he believed his client | was ‘“crooked.” These documents in- | cluded appearances and letters urging | the department to immediate action on the Hyde lieu selections. The names of C. W. Clark, the millionaire, and Elizabeth Dimond, the alleged myth, appeared among the selectors and’ the cases were a portion of those which the witness had already admit- ted to have excited his suspicions. | Heney pressed Dimond to explain how | his acts in these selections, after he | had denounced Hyde’s methods, could | be harmonized with his professions of | innocence, but the witness took refuge in his former statement that he be- lieved the fraud, if fraud there were, had been committed against the States | of California and Oregon, rather than | the United States. HENEY PRODUCES DOCUMENTS. | ‘Then Heney dug down into his leath- er bag and drew forth a bunch of four tion.” Now do businese. Diamond refused to be employed. P ADMITS HIS ERRORS. A (Signed) “Mr. Dimond,” asked Wheeler, “have | anonymous writer’s suggestion and in- “You remember,” asked Heney, “that you spoke on the stand here of Anne Dickinson instead of Susan Dickinson, of Stace instead of Steece, of Brohaski instead of Zabriskie? You also recall that Hyde's letter to you on January 16, 1903, made an admission that he had used his barber, Stein, in obtaining school lands in this State?” To each of these questions the wit- ness answered “Yes” or “I may have done sc.” Burns was recalled for a minute and told that he had complied with the serted an advertisement in the Chroni- cle on December 30, 1993. This brought the third letter of the series to his own address, postoffice box 362, Washing- ton. It inclosed copies of the anonym- ous letters Dimond says were sent to him. The letter to Burns is in part as follows: 1L W. J. B., Washington, D. C.—The “‘Govern- ment’'s’’ prompt response noted, and while, as before stated the writer will not disclose aner identity, the ‘‘Government’’ can depend upon assistance from a standpoint of vantage that can never be attained by its officials. I have fcllowed Hyde's methods for years and e has recelved a monthly letter from me that I am satisfled has made his life miserable. He is at the present moment living in the belief that every man he has corrupted in Wash- ington has or bout to turn State evidence against him. e Two years ago Hyde employed a lawyer of this city named Henry Dimond, now at 530 California street, to act for him in many you any suspicion as to the source of these letters?” “None whatever,” said his client. “T reiterate my absolute confidence in Mr. Dimond,” remarked Wheeler, “and challenge the Government to prove its claim that he concocted these out- rageous letters.” “We are trying this Heney's only response. This morning there will be more cross-examination and more anonymous letters will be read in evidence. _———————— TEN DOLLARS REWARD. Notify The CaW Office if ¥Y-1 Miss Your Paper. If for any cause THE CALL is not de- Dleass case,” was (810.00) is offered for the arrest and conviction of any one caught stealing THE CALL. F e Our frame department is showing a new line of frames in gilt. gold and Art Nouveau. Best values. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . WASHINGTON, April 21.—The German Em- bassy will be establisted at Lenox, Mass., for the suinmer, and the Embassador will raise the Embassy flag there early in June. The Embas- sador expects to remain there until October. REGAL SHOES. Vany a man would like to wear office, and his letters to Dimond showed work and affairs out here and wrre‘naw in P . o no way connected with him." We of course that he had communicated this infor- 8 U®% (RS Rory 0 clerks dates way mation to Dimond. But it was infor- back of your employment, but we also know mation the alleged conspirators had every reason to conceal and were try- ing to conceal. It is said that Dimond, Hyde and Benson alone knew many of the things in these letters, and as they were written against Hyde and Benson —chiefly against Hyde—the writer, says Heney, was undoubtedly Dimond. Dimond’s testimony shows a series of mistakes in names and facts. Hyde's stenographer, Susan Dickinson, was called “Anne Dickinson.” Colonel Za- briskie, the Tucson agent of the Gov- ernment, was misnamed “Brohaski.” The Government’'s detective, Steece, was referred to as “Mr. Stace.” Every one of these errors committed by Di- mond is found in the anonymous let- ters written to the Secretary at Wash- ington last year. “If Dimond did not write the letters,” asked Heney yesterday, “who could have written them? Their author must have been some one possessing this exact Information about Hyde's acts. Who except Dimond could have had this information and made ‘the same mistakes we have heard him make here in this courtroom?” It is evident that the Hyde-Benson- Dimond land fraud case is going to be one of the most celebrated criminal ac- tions in the legal history of the coun- try, and one of its most difficult mys- teries will be the question, “Who wrote the anonymous letters?” SURPRISE FOR HENEY. On returning to the, witness stand Dimond corrected his testimony of the day before, saying: I said yesterday that Hyde's first promise to me of compensation in the Aztec land matter was at our interview in my office in December, 1903. My vecollection was at fault. When informed him in February of that year that I would no longer act as his attorney he said T was entitled to compensation for that service. I also omitted his statement, made during the December Interview in my office, that he intended seeing Benson for an accounting of profits in the Aztec transaction. he_would retain me to bring that action, but 1 declined to take a case either against Benson or_for him. I mentioned Senator C. N. Felton yesterday and said that I consulted him before I sent for Hyde. Now I recall that T talked with the Senator about certain anonymous letters that had been sent to me. These letters had referred to Benson's indictment. Hence the interview with Hyde must have taken place late in December last, after that indictment had been reported in the newspapers. On Senator Felton's advice 1 read one of the anonymous letters to Hyde during that in- terview, telling him at the same time that T did not want him to think I was taking ad vantage of the difficulties confronting him to press for payment, on that the anonymous let- ter had anything to do with my demand. He then sald | you were In his confidence and saw many of his friends while in Washington. If you are no longer conmected with him you are, of course, free to take a case against him. The time has come; your name is before the Secretary and you will receive a visit from a person representing the Government in a day or_two. Listen to what he says and if you do not follow his advice you will make a grave mie- take. Every move you made last January was watched and you will have to explain your meeting with Valk (I need not mention any other names) and prove by the stand you take you were not in the ring. Don't wait for the Secretary to send for you, but go to Washington at once, in time to advise about Benson. You are all right with Britton & Gray and your many friends behind you it will | bo the making of you with the administration. You can give)us the name of the party we he last link in the chain. It | you know a Mrs. Curtis here you will guess | what we want. These letters have been for the pul of educating you to an under- | standing of what you as an attorney can give s, and your official oath makes it your duty to expose a crime. while the treatment you have received at Hyde's hands binds you to nothing save legal secrecy, surely not the | matters that came to your own knowledge while in Washington. You will be offered $2500 retainer and $2500 | more in case of conviction to assist Henny. | Take thought before refusing. | The second letter was an exhorta- tion to Dimond to take vengeance on Hyde for his “trickery,” and closes: “Look out for Walter Bush, as he is Hyde’'s sleeping spy.” THE QUARREL WITH HYDE. “Did you not call Hyde to your of- fice on December 22, last, and was he not there an hour and thirty-five min- utes?” asked Heney. “No, only thirty minutes.” “And did you not tell him that if he did not pay you for your work you !would not feel obliged to keep secret | his fraudulent methods? And did not this lead to Hyde's sudden departure in anger?” “No,”"—~to both questions—‘“that was not the reason for his leaving.” “You did not .think it a good time | then to get some money out of him? Did you not demand $10,000 as the | price of your silence?” For an instant the witness squirmed 'in his chair, but his ever ready “No™ | came at last. “I told Hyde that the $10,000 which | he claimed was all he had been able ' to get out of Benson would not more | than pay me justly for my work.” “But you read him the first of the anonymous letters you have produced here?” 5 es, 1 did.” “You testified that after you left Hyde's employ on March 1, 1903, you did not sign any. appearances or other i want to forge | i ! letters. Dimond seemed to anticipate | what was coming and braced mmselr‘ in his chair. First the Government at- torney called Detective Burns to iden- tify the letters. “The first and second,” he said, “I received from Secretary Hitchcock. The second and third came to me by mail.” The first two letters, as appeared by their postmarks, had been mailed in San Francisco on the same day, De- cember 22, 1903, the very day that Di- mond had his angry interview with Hyde. Dimond denied that he had ever seen these letters or sent them to the secretary. They were then read, bing in part as follows: 1. SAN FRANCISCO. Mr. Secretary: Note the school sections taken in the lands withdrawn in Southern Cal- ifornia. You will find that F, A. i John A. Benson. through their have them all. You will find the same parties have all in Northern California, although their names do not appear. If Stace had been worth the powder to blow him up he would not have talked so much at Sacramento; your men were fools. He knew every move that was made and blocked them at every turn. You will find the truth was told in Ari- zona, but your men weren't smart enough to nall it or use it When you got it. You bettter find why W, K. Slack remained in H.'s pay after_he lefi his employ, Why did_you not find E. Dimond? or Jennie Blair? You saw their names on the deeds; some one must have signed. So Stace told you he heard of her (Eljzabeth) in Oakland, did he? Ha, ha! the Bush was too thick for him and obscured his judgment. Call him up again and ask him if it ever cccurred to him that some one was Hyde-ing behind that particular Bush. You will ind C, W. Clark is owed so much money he has to stand in. You will find that all the parties who give so good a character have been let in on the boodle. You will find your suspension order the best thing you ever did it you follow it up. Send good men, if you have any; Grand Jury, arrest and make pub- lic: that is the thing_ How much he paid his dummies, his barber and friends. Get hold of his ‘‘pet,”” A Dickenson: she knows a thing or two and would tell on the stand. Show up his double llg:, l.nfl, above all, stop your office leaks. Tt the -Government wishes to act in this matter and really wishes to punish the gullty, any question Inserted as a personal in the San Francisco Chronicle and signed “'Government'” will receive a prompt reply. Var!“ml’mtf\l'l.ly, 1. Mr. Secretary: When Mr. Pugh and Mr. tace started for' Arizona, your trusted “Frauds” Div. wired Hyde' full particulars “I will state now,” said Dimond’s at- | papers in his cases, adding that a rub- torney, Wheeler, “that the witness has|ber stamp must have been used by in his possession a series otfnpnymou Hyde’s office boy in affixing your name Regals but he hesitates to pay so ' little as $3.50 for a pair of shoes. Doubtful about taking so much for so little? Not atall. He'sgot a sort of semi-suppress- ed notion that he can't bereally “swell” un- less he pays from $5 to $14 for his shoes. 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