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Cool and demure, Priscilla Hiss corroborated almost everything her husband had said. She denied any part of the Chamberses' story which might tie her husband into any Communist plot. Occasionally she rested her white-gloved hands on the arms of the chair, where Esther Chambers, angry eyes snapping through spectacles, had rested her work-hardened hands...
Only when Murphy began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
...might, the defense was never able to get rid of that typewriter. It had called Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, the Hisses' onetime Negro maid, to testify that the Hisses had given the machine to her sons, had tried to show that the machine was not in the Hiss household when the treasonous act was committed. But neither Clytie Catlett and her sons, uncertain witnesses at best, nor the Hisses were able definitely to remember just when the Catletts got the machine. Pat Catlett remembered that when he got it, he took it forthwith to a typewriter repair shop...
...other stumps were some of those almost forgotten records which FBI agents had turned up. Hiss had said firmly that the last time he saw Chambers was in "May or June of 1936." Against that statement were the Chamberses' recollections and two facts established some time ago but now assuming vital proportions...
...Esther Chambers had testified that Priscilla Hiss was trying to get into a "nursing course" at Baltimore's Mercy Hospital. Priscilla Hiss denied ever discussing such a plan with Esther Chambers. A letter, which on cross-examination she admitted writing, showed that she had applied for admission to a course in inorganic chemistry at the University of Maryland on May 25, 1937, so that she could get credits she needed to get into a training course at Mercy Hospital...