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...good men and true make a jury in Alberta. Before them Miss MacMillan appeared as her own star witness in cool summer hat and frock. She faced the impassive Premier with a story of how at a picnic in tiny Edson when she was 18 he told her she was a very handsome woman, mentioned the opportunities for employment in Edmonton and said that Mrs. Brownlee would keep an eye on her if she chose to come to Alberta's metropolis. She came, got a secretarial job in the Attorney-General's office, and Mrs. Brownlee was always...
...seduction, according to Vivian MacMillan, consisted in Premier Brownlee's telling her that illness had caused Mrs. Brownlee, who had borne him two strapping sons, to become his wife in name only and that this drove him nearly frantic. "He told me he needed me as a pal," testified Miss MacMillan. "I told him that if I did such a thing it would be a sin. He told me that he could not go on as Premier of Alberta unless I would give in to him. I seemed to be under a spell. He seemed to be playing with...
...months of going out with the Premier of Alberta in his motor car on starry nights were described by Miss MacMillan without coming to the point until counsel for the Premier cut in : "He made a proposition to you to part with your honor...
...didn't say 'part with my honor.' " mused Vivian MacMillan. "He said it would be doing the honorable thing." Since Mrs. Brownlee appeared to like having the ray of sunshine for a house guest, Miss MacMillan was able to do the honorable thing under the Premier's own roof. She testified that he turned on water in the bathtub to cover the noise, tiptoed into her room and led her back to his, tiptoeing in step with him "so that the footsteps would sound like one person." He also gave her, she said, large black pills...
...told me they would prevent trouble," said Miss MacMillan quietly, then parried cross examination as to the medical student, John Caldwell. He proposed to her, she said, but when she told him about Premier Brownlee he withdrew his offer of marriage, offered instead his advice on how to sue the Premier and recover damages. When she finally broke with him, according to Miss MacMillan, Premier Brownlee was "a love-torn, sex-crazed victim of passion...