B. Harry Kurlansky testified as follows:—
He is in business at Quincy, at 1466 Hancock Street. He has been in business there since 1909 or 1910. He knows Mrs. Lola Andrews and has known her for the last seven or eight years. Sometime in February of this year he had a talk with her. "I was right on my door step and Lola Andrews went by…It was just between six or seven; I should judge it was about half past six."
Q. Now, tell us what was said. A. As I sat on my door step and as I know her I always spoke to her when she went by. I said to her, "Hello, Lola," and she stopped and she answered me. While she answered me I said, "You look kind of tired." She says, "Yes." She says, "They are bothering the life out of me." I says, "What?" She says, "I just come from jail." I says, "What have you done in jail?" She says, "The Government took me down and want me to recognize those men," she says, "and I don't know a thing about them. I have never seen them and I can't recognize them." She says, "Unfortunately I have been down there to get a job and I have seen many men that I don't know and I have never paid any attention to anyone." (R. 638–9.)
This patently ingenuous witness was subjected to the following questioning by Judge Thayer:—
The Court. Mr. Witness, I would like to ask you one question. Did you attempt to find out who this person was who represented the Government who was trying to get her to take and state that which was false?
The Witness. Did I what?
Mr. Jeremiah McAnarney. What is that question?
The Court. Did you try to find out who it was who represented the Government?
The Witness. No.
The Court. Why not?
The Witness. Well, it didn't come into my mind. I wasn't sure, you know. It didn't—
