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Again & again Chairman Black repeated his question, making clear meantime that Texas' Nat Patton was the Representative he suspected of receiving the box. Each time Mr. Carpenter's shaky memory refused to produce anything but a few cigars. Finally Chairman Black told him to go home and refresh his memory, come back next...
...Carpenter reappeared with his memory refreshed by a telephone call to his son in Dallas. The son. he now recollected, had noticed Representative Patton reaching for a cigar, generously presented him with the whole...
Joseph A. Worsham, attorney for Mr. Carpenter's company, took the witness stand. He had just learned from Representative Patton, he declared, that the mysterious package contained two Department of Agriculture books on livestock raising. Representative Patton had taken them to Mr. Carpenter's room as a pres-ent for his son, then remembered that he could save Mr. Carpenter some postage by using his Congressional frank to send the books to Texas, hence had wrapped them up in a newspaper to take back to his office...
...Wife & Texas. Afire with self-respect, Representative Patton stomped into the hearing room next day with an empty cigar box, two Department of Agriculture books wrapped in a newspaper. He was there, he explained, for the sake of "the great State of Texas," and "the pretty little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That...
Great was Nat Patton's dismay when his friend Eugene Sellers took the stand to testify that the box he saw Mr. Patton carrying away from the Carpenters' did not seem like a cigar box to him. It was too small and light. Furthermore, Representative Patton's nephew, Norris Shook, had declared: "Hell, no, that wasn't cigars." And several days later Representative Patton told Friend Sellers: "Well, I bought one of those baby bonds." Afterward, Nephew Shook had hinted: "Uncle bought a bond and it wasn...